Albums of the Year # 42 Dusted - III

 

Paul Simon and indeed Simon & Garfunkel are not perhaps the most common influences in the Rock and Roll canon. In comparison with Dylan, Lou Reed, Bowie and Lennon and McCartney, they're relatively infrequent evident comparison points when you hear new records.

However, there's a stillness and purity in their music and Simon's songwriting  that feels fresh and welcome when you discern their touch on something you listen to.

I can hear Simon all over III the latest album from Dusted, Brian Borcherdt, also of Holy Fuck. Not so much in the lyrics perhaps, but certainly in the space and confident  minimalism within these songs. It's such a beautiful sparse, poetic record.

One for the beginning or close of the day probably.  III  is eleven songs in all, each with gifts to impart. Also offering reminders of Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and Elliott Smith in turn, it's an altogether beautiful album and a reminder that less can so often result in more.

                      * Thanks once more to Darren Jones who directed me to this very fine record.