The best songs on Fantasy are easily the best in Lightning Dust's catalog because of this winning combination of pushed boundaries and inspired writing.
Lightning Dust’s giving close attention to details of composition, resisting the temptation to stretch material or ideas too thinly, has brought about an album of ambition and maturity, of subtle shades of darkness and light, of promise fulfilled.
If the songs on the first half of Fantasy trigger the chemicals in your brain, the captivating tracks that comprise the second half implore you to submit to them completely.
It’s a fresh sound, if a smidge antiseptic, with its disaffected, synth-slathered melancholy evoking a neon-streaked dance floor where everyone wears party hats ironically
At times Lightning Dust produce some sublime moments on Fantasy but there are too few of these to warrant repetitive plays of the album as a whole.
While it's hard to fault a band for branching out beyond their established template, the tidy electronic textures of Fantasy don't begin to match the mysterious depths of Lightning Dust's best work.
Experimenting with a change of direction for your third record is understandable, but drifting so far away from the qualities that made your sound so individual? That's a little harder to forgive.
1 | Diamond 3:33 | |
2 | Reckless and Wild 3:54 | |
3 | Mirror 3:45 | |
4 | Moon 3:14 | |
5 | Fire Me Up 4:19 | |
6 | Loaded Gun 4:02 | |
7 | In the City Tonight 5:02 | |
8 | Fire, Flesh And Bone 4:21 | |
9 | Agatha 4:10 | |
10 | Never Again 3:06 |
#21 | / | Slant |