The World Of Dust: on tour w/ Toby Goodshank,Leslie Graves, Boo Hoo

It has been a while since avant-folk musician Stefan Breuer took his his lo-fi project The World of Dust on the road. He has five intimate shows lined up, as part of a bill with like minded acts Toby Goodshank, Leslie Graves, and Boo Hoo.

Toby Goodshank: Truth Jump Fall

Another Toby Goodshank album gets the 10th anniversary treatment. Truth Jump Fall is an anti-folk gem, with the NYC musician using the perspective of an outsider trying to get in. He tries to be aloof, claiming that he is doing alright, while he obviously isn't. The death of his father became the subject matter for the title track. "It's ok to be alone", he sings in My Reflection and he doesn't mind that those Wedding Bell are not ringing for him.

Goodshank used his music as both a means to escape from the harsh reality and a coping mechanism when his personal life was in tatters. Lucky for him Jack Dishel, his bandmate from the Moldy Peaches, was on hand to help to make sense of it all and turn it into a dark but alluring set of songs.

Toby Goodshank: untitled

untitled by NYC musician Toby Goodshank is a bona fide cult classic. To celebrate its tenth anniversary the album now gets an overlong reissue. Goodshank covers a lot of ground, from garage rock to rap to anti-folk.

Foregoing song titles - the tracks are numbered - Goodshank eagetry borrows from and deconstructs classics from America's cornucopia of left-field music legacy. Track 5, for instance, sounds a lot like The Velvet Underground's Sweet Jane. the gnarly and gritty sound of Sonic Youth. some Hüsker Dü, Big Star, the list goes on and on.