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Cave Curse: Future Dust

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I was there, when you lost your mind. With these opening words, Madison's Cave Curse launches an explosive slew of hypnotic, looping, all-encompassing set-to-overdrive layers of synthesizers, coupled with precisely-edged percussive execution in Future Dust, the project’s staggering debut. Hex On You sets the tone for the entire album: experimental, spacey, but nonetheless emotional, gritty, and unrelentingly powerful. Future Dust is centered around the deeper, uncertainty-driven themes of impermanence, existentialism and breaking free—brought to life all the more vibrantly through the energetic medium of electronic darkwave crossed with garage-punk—in the vein of Bauhaus , Lost Sounds , early Nine Inch Nails , Digital Leather and New Order . These often-overlooked genres were previously only alluded to in the songs of already seasoned rock 'n roll musician and synth-wielding frontman Bobby Hussy (Fire Heads, The Hussy, TIT) and pummeling drum aficianado Will Gun