Dusted Lux - Neverended (2014)

Dusted Lux is the project for Connecticut-based Lee Camfield. He has appeared as Dusted Lux on the artist-run Kim Dawn and No Kings labels where his shorter releases welded crunching textures and hazy ambience in a curiously soulful resolve.

On Neverended, Camfield adds songform to shape the signature drift of his guitar playing into bare-boned acoustic folk and against melted sound waves and fractured beats. His voice enters the fray for the first time lending a plaintive touch to the spooked beauty that defines this diverse, idiosyncratic record. A sunny, jangly strum unwinds from What Is True’s shrouding sonic fog - disarming, bare and tender – while elsewhere, A Horse In The Orchard approaches something close to Dirty Three’s floating and shimmering streams and Adrift is both a glowing and ghostly atmosphere.

This raw set is a jigsaw of feeling, though its sense of movement is vital and ever pulsing, such is the searching heart of Neverended that ultimately gives it its compelling focus.