Dust combines folk and jam-band spaciousness with overgrown nature imagery and ego death. It's an identity crisis caught on tape, an exploration of how turning away from your art can be the thing that ultimately leads you back.
As The Dead Tongues, Ryan Gustafson has emerged as one of the most distinct voices in modern folk. Now, he's made the most poignant music of his career: the song-centric Body of Light, and the wonderfully elliptical I Am A Cloud.