Editorial Reviews The new album's release was celebrated with a show at the Night Gallery Cabaret on December 2, 2000, and there was no mistaking the impact this band has had on local music fans. With the crowd (including punk-rockers, indie-rockers, folkies, cowboys, bikers and bankers and at least one member of the Calgary City Council) swelling to 200 people over capacity, and a steady stream of patrons being turned away at the door half an hour before National Dust even took the stage, the band's adage "the song's the thing" rang true once again. Play good songs, the rest takes care of itself.
Welcome To Utopia
Les Siemienuk in the Calgary Straight's Year In Music issue.
"Top of the list is National Dust... Lorrie delivers standout songs in a gutsy, self deprecatingly humorous, rootsy way
Mary-Lynn McEwan of FFWD Magazine.
"National Dust is a super tight four piece band...the songs are an infectious collection of smart cynicism...
Album Description
July 2000 saw the band going into the studio to record their follow-up album with Young Dave Alcock (local producer/engineer and member of Calgary's pop-punk heroes Chixdiggit) behind the board. The recording made good on the promise of the past year's live shows, revealing more layers of the already-established Dust sound. With the crack rhythm section of Watson and Clarke and the soulful playing of Leacock fleshing out sonically what the debut album only hinted at, Matheson's personal, bittersweet life-stories took on a whole new life in the studio, and the new album, entitled "Welcome to Utopia", proved to be the mature, well-crafted rock and roll record National Dust fans were waiting for.
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Welcome To Utopia
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ASIN: B00005R81P Release Date: 2000-12-15 |
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Album Description
July 2000 saw the band going into the studio to record their follow-up album with Young Dave Alcock (local producer/engineer and member of Calgary's pop-punk heroes Chixdiggit) behind the board. The recording made good on the promise of the past year's live shows, revealing more layers of the already-established Dust sound. With the crack rhythm section of Watson and Clarke and the soulful playing of Leacock fleshing out sonically what the debut album only hinted at, Matheson's personal, bittersweet life-stories took on a whole new life in the studio, and the new album, entitled "Welcome to Utopia", proved to be the mature, well-crafted rock and roll record National Dust fans were waiting for.
The new album's release was celebrated with a show at the Night Gallery Cabaret on December 2, 2000, and there was no mistaking the impact this band has had on local music fans. With the crowd (including punk-rockers, indie-rockers, folkies, cowboys, bikers and bankers and at least one member of the Calgary City Council) swelling to 200 people over capacity, and a steady stream of patrons being turned away at the door half an hour before National Dust even took the stage, the band's adage "the song's the thing" rang true once again. Play good songs, the rest takes care of itself.
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