Photo by Laura Mason

“Mountain Laurel”, the latest preview off The Late Great Gold Dust from Gold Dust – the pysch-folk rock trajectory from Western Mass shoegazer Stephen Pierce of Kindling and Ampere – basks in the journey of uncertainty of this life by immersing the self in what is known naturally. “Will I see the storm before the wind picks up? / Will I finally get it right?,” he asks in its opening moments, as the listen breaks through dawn in a blinding harmony of vocals, strum-shimmering chords and sharp glints of sunlight. Edged on by its persistent drum rattle, he presses along even as day turns to night. “We’re all terrified of the lives we’ve got / In the shadow of our fate / And we may never glimpse the unknowable / In darkness or beyond.” Eventually, another morning will always come along, and that’s comfort enough.

Gold Dust’s The Late Great Gold Dust will be released November 4th on Centripetal Force Records.