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Strawberry Line

Once Again

Shinkansen No.1 / New Ways is the second release from CC DUST, a new duo from Olympia, Washington featuring Maryjane Dunphe and David Jaques. Shinkansen No.1 introduces the record with a more industrial, harder edge than much of the group’s debut 12” (CC DUST – S/T), a fast paced, urgent song powered by by fast kick drums and Jaques’ bassline acrobatics. CC Dust opened every show on their recent European tour with this salvo, a dark energy that spirals upwards, with Dunphe’s vocal giving the production space to build into a crescendo.

New Ways on the other hand, is perhaps Dunphe’s finest moment yet set to disc. Dunphe is a performer who battles restraint, her every vocal performance a tour de force and New Ways is one of the most emotional and transcendent performances imaginable. With a terse retraint in the verses, the chorus here erupts into an anthem for doomed youth, with every crack in Dunphe’s voice hitting the listener square in the chest.

A light that casts shadow, CC Dust is doomed, romantic music anchored by Jaques’ live bass and the powerful performance values Dunphe has honed both in her punk group Vexx and in various film and performance projects. Musically, CC Dust’s precedents might be considered the European synth pop originators of the early 80s, there’s also an abundance of low-end hooks played on baritone and bass guitars that teases the ear like early New Order productions, but in Dunphe’s passionate vocal performances there’s a close-to-the- 
bone reality that bypasses cool detachment.

CC Dust play and write real songs lived. A desire for desire. What is it? How does it manifest? Is it all worth the tumult? CC Dust offer no answers as there are none, but they ask the right questions in a life-affirming way. Doomed, romantic, unanswerable and vital.

CC DUST: New Ways (from Shinkansen No. 1 /New Ways 7" LSSN043)

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Gymnastics

Tough Luck

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Dark Stains

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Dirty Disco

'End of The Night' is the first single from A Place to Bury Strangers’ upcoming EP, Hologram. Released on APTBS’s newly formed label, Dedstrange, it’s a sonic return to the band's most dangerous sound. Bending fuzz guitars wrap themselves around a sonic story of betrayal and friendships destroyed, revealing an intimacy and attitude that is distinctly A Place to Bury Strangers. Debts are paid to the band's influences and it sounds like a biologically enhanced MBV being thrown into the futuristic and disturbing world of Philip K Dick.  “End Of The Night” serves as an abstract mirror to the moment we live in. Written and recorded during the on-going global pandemic and in the midst of the decline of civilization, “End Of The Night” is a sonic vaccine to the horrors of modern life.

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