“the distinguishing feature of ( ) is that ( ) is not stable enough to be identical with itself. this is why its pliancy and its ductility enable the active dissolution called rust.”
Rust—released on the 22nd day of the second month of the year and offered as a digital album for the price of $2.22— is the second album from Buddy Junior, combining sparkly grunge, melancholy shoegaze, and a diverse array of similarly alloyed sounds into an enigmatic new alternative rock album out of SF. The quotation above accompanying the release’s promo materials (with the word “iron” replaced by closed parentheses) comes from Rust, a book by literary theorist Jean-Michel Rabaté from the Object Lessons series, and it’s only the beginning to the labyrinth of meaning contained within and around the album. Through the quote, visual cues, numerology, scrawled descriptions, and, of course, the noisy yet melodic recordings, Buddy Junior contributes another worthy, hazy entrant into the Cherub Dream Records catalog.
