
DEAD TONGUES
DUST (NC EXCLUSIVE CLEAR VINYL) (LTD TO 150) - LP
UPC: 850034504186
Label: PSYCHIC HOTLINE
Format: LP
Release Date: April 15, 2022
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Dust is the fifth album from The Dead Tongues, the project of Western North Carolina-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ryan Gustafson. Gustafson recorded Dustin nine days, the fastest he’d ever recorded anything. It was the fastest he’d ever written anything. The record was recorded at Sylvan Esso’s studio, Betty’s, in the woods of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He built it out with help from a number of his musician friends - Joe Westerlund (Watchhouse, Megafaun, Califone) on drums, Andrew Marlin (Watchhouse) on mandolin, backing vocals from Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Molly Sarlé of Mountain Man, among others.
Dust is meant to be listened to while taking a night drive, farflung and roving and existential. Somewhere between the expansiveness of American jamband and the banjo-centric folk songwriting of Gustafson’s Appalachia home. Gustafson explains the thematic throughline succinctly: “It’s this idea of uprooting and rebirth and cycles, and the past informing the future, and the future informing the past. There is no single story. Everything is connected.”
Produced by Ryan Gustafson
Recorded by Saman Khoujinian and Ryan Gustafson at Betty’s
Mixed by Ryan Gustafson at Citizen Vinyl
Mastered by Chris Boerner at The Kitchen
Photography by Hunter Savoy Jaffe
Layout by Will Hackney
In order of appearance:
Ryan Gustafson - Vocals, Guitars, Harmonica, Piano
Alex Bingham - Bass, Synth
Joe Westerlund - Drums, Percussion, Balafon, Metallophone
Allyn Love - Pedal Steel
Alexandra Sauser-Monnig - Vocals
Josh Moore - Vocals
Andrew Marlin - Mandolin
Molly Sarlé - Vocals