Huggable Dust

At first, Huggable Dust seems to be a break up record, but it is much much more. It grows and blossoms and touches on so many aspects of the heart; longing, loss, obsession, disagreement, and resilience. Okay's Marty Anderson writes and performs his songs with a uniquely kaleidoscopic approach of mixing repetition and variation. This is the language of pop music, of course, but Marty's songs fold in on each other acrobatically in ways that aren't always apparent on a single listen. Multi-layered and baroque, dense layers of technological and organic sounds fizzle under gentle pop melodies.