Rustin Man - Clockdust (2020)
Rustin Man - Clockdust (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 204 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 96 Mb | 00:39:50
Art Rock | Label: Domino
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 204 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 96 Mb | 00:39:50
Art Rock | Label: Domino
Second album from Rustin Man aka Paul Webb from Talk Talk. Having waited 17 years for Drift Code, some may be surprised at Clockdust’s swift arrival, but the album’s roots can be found in the same extended sessions. “Early on I realised I had two albums worth of material,” Webb explains. “The first tunes I wrote were electric guitar based, with long arrangements that built up in layers to something sonically quite dense. These became the bulk of Drift Code. As a reaction, I wrote a batch of songs that were tighter in their structure but had more feeling of space. These make up the bulk of Clockdust.”Tracklist:
Once he’d identified each song’s greater role, Webb took pains to ensure the albums would stand alone. “Through the year of mixing and releasing Drift Code,” he continues, “I made a conscious effort not to listen to Clockdust. It became some long-lost twin everybody had forgotten. There was an older, wiser atmosphere to it, more cinematic, but in a romantic way”.
Clockdust draws upon an armoury of instruments, some, like the euphonium, unfamiliar in such contexts, and plenty – the kokoriko, the okónkolo – with even more unfamiliar names. Each track, too, indicates Webb’s fondness for the path less travelled, its twists and turns at first jarring but soon intuitive. That they’re embellished by a voice which has seemingly endured many lifetimes emphasises their mysterious nature. That its recording was soundtracked by Jacques Brel, Jet Harris and Kurt Weill no doubt contributed too. That many songs are inspired by old movies enhances their ageless atmosphere yet further.
Lead single Jackie’s Room is about a dysfunctional yet romantic relationship in which the protagonist believes “as long as she’s desired, she’ll never grow old” and the resulting track sways with the grace of its aging seductress. “I think of the album as containing stories from people who’ve reached their present situation through many years of experiences,” Webb says.
Idiosyncratic and quietly haunting, Clockdust is seeped in sepia-tinted nostalgia, “a powerful force of nature,” Webb states, “up there with love and desire”. The album blurs the boundaries between past and present. Webb insists that he prefers to live in the here and now, but in looking back he’s found a magical, mesmerising manner in which to forge a path forward: for him, for his music, and for his audience.
AllMusic Review by Heather Phares
Since the way that time plays tricks is a major theme in Rustin Man's music, perhaps it's not surprising that the project's releases have appeared so unpredictably. After nearly two decades of silence, Paul Webb delivered not just one but two fascinating albums within a year of each other. Recorded at the same time as 2019's elegant Drift Code, Clockdust leans into that album's antiqued, lived-in feeling and takes it in its own intriguing directions. Webb swirls together hints of folk, jazz, psych-pop, electronic music, and soft rock on subtly poignant songs that float like motes of time in worlds of their own. On the beautifully tarnished "Gold & Tinsel," when he sings of a "dusty old bandstand/filled with new guitars/waiting to misbehave/waiting to take your place" in his wonderfully weathered voice, he takes his listeners on a nuanced emotional journey with just a handful of lines. Throughout Clockdust, Webb's approach feels truly timeless. "Man with a Remedy," an acerbic sketch of a snake-oil salesman that cleverly pits optimistic words against dour sounds, is just as apt in the 21st century as it would have been many years before. Similarly, "Love Turns Her On" pairs stormy psych guitar outbursts with bitter heartache befitting film noir. Indeed, vintage films were one of Webb's major inspirations on Clockdust's faded, almost forgotten glamour. "Jackie's Room" paints a picture of an aging beauty lost in fantasies of her youth that evokes Sunset Boulevard, while the surreal torch song "Old Flamingo" shuffles softly before taking flight on an extended trumpet solo. Webb deepens this vibe on "Rubicon Song"; filled with striking instrumentation like marimba, melodica, and reed organ, it's a bewitching instrumental that feels like a score waiting for a scene. Here and on the dub-inflected panorama "Night in the Evening," Webb's experimental side is vital to his remarkable ability to create a mood. He's in a league of his own when it comes to making the most of music's time-traveling, spell-casting powers, and like Drift Code before it, Clockdust proves that Rustin Man's music has only grown richer and more rewarding over the years.
1. Carousel Days (04:10)
2. Gold & Tinsel (03:15)
3. Jackie’s Room (03:33)
4. Love Turns Her On (04:13)
5. Rubicon Song (03:33)
6. Old Flamingo (04:47)
7. Kinky Living (04:45)
8. Night In Evening City (07:17)
9. Man With a Remedy (04:13)
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EAC extraction logfile from 31. May 2020, 23:01
Rustin Man / Clockdust
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