Gold Dust rides a shambling psychedelic vibe in this third full-length, fully realizing the blend of folky jangle, twanging Americana and all-out guitar-spiraling freakery only hinted at in previous albums. The long, multi-parted “An Early Translation of a Later Work” juxtaposes stinging banjo cadences and soaring pop choruses, bass-bumping vamps and airy swirls of vocal counterpoints, as it rolls like a rainbow colored tide for over six minutes.
With his last album, The Late Great Gold Dust, Gold Dust’s Western Mass punker turned cosmic folk artist Stephen Pierce seemed to be trying to turn an ordinary guitar into a sitar, mining a western instrument for the slippery half tones of the psychedelic mainstay. Here in an ambitious…