Dust, hopefully, is a momentary glistening incarnation of a genuinely forward-thinking musical project.
A more challenging and elusive listen than the felted atmospherics of Chance of Rain or In Situ, this is Halo at her most artful and poetic.
Halo's records have always posed tricky questions, and Dust features her most complex and engrossing yet.
Dust, Halo’s third album and first in four years, is a high point in her discography, working multiple, sometimes disparate, elements together while letting them retain their identities in a way few others could.
Far beyond a cut-and-paste collage of genres and moods, Dust is a thrilling attempt to escape all the usual points of classification, to collapse the primacy of the human voice, and to obscure and reveal at unexpected moments.
Dust is very disorienting and not always easy to grasp hold of, but it never comes close to sounding like anything else, and its best moments are highly compelling.
‘Dust’ is divisive and at times challenging. Yet, in Halo’s restless experimentalism we find moments of unexpected beauty.
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