[DID NOT ATTEND: April 4, 2024] Destroyer (solo) / Lightning Dust
Back in 2020, Destroyer was the last show I saw before everything shut down. I bought tickets for them the last time they came to Philly (2022) but wound up going to Pup with my son that night instead.
This show was a solo show which, despite how much I enjoyed Dan Bejar, I was 100% not interested in.
I genuinely can’t imagine Destroyer without the rest of the band (doesn’t matter who is playing, I just want the extra musicians). So I had no intention of going to this one.
Lightning Dust is a band I had forgotten about. The band is a side project of Amber Webber and Joshua Wells, both members of Black Mountain, who I saw open for Primus a few years ago.
Unlike the heavy Black Mountain, Lightning Dust plays haunting, minimalist instrumentation with spooky, goth-like lyrics.
I have their 2013 album Fantasy, but honestly haven’t thought about them in about a decade.
I’ll bet it was a quiet, minimalist night.