Dust World, by Banny Grove

Dust World

by Banny Grove

supported by

jjspecial Banny Banny Grove-Grove-Grove, Banny Banny Grove-Grove-Grove, they all tuned in to Banny Grove

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$9 USD or more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Shipping now! Sorry for the delay! Top quality LP comes in unprinted black jacket with a 12x18 wrap-around poster. Co-released by Nicey Music and Feeding Tube Records. Very few made.

Includes unlimited streaming of Dust World via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 2 days

$20 USD
Cassette + Digital Album
Professionally duplicated and imprinted cassette, shrinkwrapped.

Includes unlimited streaming of Dust World via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 2 days

$9 USD or more
Poster/Print
For those who want to support artists but don't collect records and tapes anymore, high-quality 12x18 poster, eco-printed on thick recycled paper. With lyrics and liner notes on the back. We'll send you a download too, just ask.

ships out within 2 days

$8 USD or more

1.	Malibu 03:56	buy track
2.	Blue and Green 03:25	buy track
3.	So Happy, So Good 03:53	buy track
4.	Piece of Mine 05:18	buy track
5.	Doves Come Recd 03:24	buy track
6.	Goo-Goo's Melody 02:53	buy track
7.	Standard Lives 03:04	buy track
8.	Sure Enough 03:35	buy track
9.	Covered in Love 03:20	buy track

about

In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl was the cruelest man-made ecological catastrophe in human history. In 2020, Dust World.

* * *

After pioneering the now thriving form of underground-band-as-character-based-performance-art, and filling 2017–2019 with a staggering number of wigged-up Banny Grove shows in support of a self-released record and a 7” EP, Banny Grove leader Louise Chicoine decided to trade in the costume and the cartoonish-ness that were her signatures in order to break ground on a more profound and lasting body of work. Perhaps not coincidentally, this shift also saw the group relocating from the reputedly over-the-top and image-conscious metropolis of Los Angeles to a solar-powered shack and recording studio in the middle of the Mojave Desert. Here they set out to distill elements of pop and electronic music with a high level of compositional inventiveness and a touch of country-western flavor, and to sharpen Louise’s lyrics to the unflinching edge demanded by our sick and confusing era.

Dust World is the document of this transformation, the wet-eyed smile of a clown removing her makeup for possibly the last time. Album opener “Malibu” establishes the pattern: a splashy beachball tune with a chromatic hook, that suddenly breaks apart for a last full minute of drifting introspection. And then we get “Blue and Green,” a naked and furious take on climate collapse that rises from a lament to a rallying anthem over 3 and a half chilling minutes. “So Happy, So Good” offers a return to clowning, as Louise raps like Debbie Harry about the power of free and indestructible pleasures – before the album's centerpiece “Piece of Mine” takes us on an immersive R&B-driven trip back to an old-west fireside, where an aging cowboy reckons with the disenfranchisement of a life traded for a pile of steaks.

The same dialectic plays out on Side B, finding one of its strongest iterations in the slow burner “Goo-Goo's Melody,” wherein Louise roasts the apathy of our oligarchs in what sounds like a series of nursery rhymes. And with “Covered in Love,” the swinging chunk of electro-country that closes the album, the band manages to craft a heartfelt love song out of what's ostensibly a parody of an insurance commercial.

Banny Grove is a singular voice in today's increasingly unsupervised art music world, forging a nexus of underground experimentalism and pop accessibility that was previously thought to be impossible. No wonder the band has become as beloved by the art school crowd as they are by more mainstream-leaning demographics. But if this album is the first shovel-load of dirt broken at the metaphorical homestead of Banny Grove's self-reliant artistic ambitions, what will the band grow next? As the pandemic grinds the last of the veneer off of the rusted-out hull that was our society, and Dust World's themes prove to be more and more prophetic, we just can't wait to find out.

credits

released May 30, 2020

BANNY GROVE ... LOUISE CHICOINE 
SYNTHS, GUITAR, and DRUM PROGRAMMING ... PETER NICHOLS
 BASS ... NEHEMIAH ST-DANGER 
PERCUSSION ... JONNY KOSMO
 with JENNIFER VANILLA (#3) and LILY KONIGSBERG (#7)  

RECORDED by GREG HARTUNIAN at TROPICO BEAUTY, LOS ANGELES
 MASTERED by SARAH REGISTER
  ART by PETER NICHOLS 

license

about

Nicey Music Los Angeles, California

A part time music label by the members of Banny Grove.

thanks for listening!
<3 Nicey

Facebook

contact / help

Contact Nicey Music

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Dust World, you may also like:

Palberta5000
by Palberta

supported by 13 fans who also own “Dust World”

A beauty in candor. People who probably never intended to make music, be in a band, or even be cool, are now the greatest asset that we have for good vibes, honesty, & understanding. Favorite Track: The Way that you Do jumesluke
go to album
Prime Example [OSR47]
by Hellier Ulysses

supported by 10 fans who also own “Dust World”

Hellier Ulysses do more in under 10 minutes than most bands do in their entire careers. These songs bend time, constantly move and consistently charm. Great stuff! ZzzzZzzzz
go to album
God's Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess
by Fievel Is Glauque

supported by 9 fans who also own “Dust World”

pretty harmonies and melodies, fun lyrics angstnun
go to album
Touched by the Stuff
by Motorists

Toronto rivals San Francisco as the North American capital of jangle pop as evidenced by this new record of sunny jams from the Motorists. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 16, 2024
go to album
Dream Talk
by Still Corners

Blissfully narcotic dream-pop inspired by real dreams. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 6, 2024
go to album
Macro
by Brijean

Brijean are back! Uptempo space disco grooves dusted with soul and R&B on the duo’s latest masterpiece. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 3, 2024
go to album
Thoughtless
by Funny Band

supported by 9 fans who also own “Dust World”

"What's all this/ In the city park?/ The children's chalk drawings/ Are glowing in the dark/ Old American place/ Will it ever live again?" Leah
go to album