Compiling four singles dripped out over the past year plus a few extras, Dust Remover is a new demo tape by SF shoegazers Badvril. Fuzzy, sinuous basslines, ghostly sung words, and marching drum and bass make up the sound here, familiar and comforting as a couch in your friend’s very much lived-in Mission District apartment. Personally, the track that initially caught my attention was the cover of the Goo Goo Dolls song “Iris”, just because I used to play that song repeatedly off the City of Angels soundtrack back in the day. But it’s also the odd one out here, dramatically forlorn in comparison to the rest of the tape’s more ambivalent, dreamy sound. It’s all good.
