Dreamcrusher
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Dreamcrusher | |
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| Origin | Wichita, Kansas, U.S. |
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| Years active | 2003-present |
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| Website | dreamcrusher |
Luwayne Glass, better known as Dreamcrusher, is a Brooklyn-based noise musician from Wichita, Kansas.[1]
Dreamcrusher has been the subject of features in The Village Voice, Pitchfork,[2] and FADER;[3] praised in SPIN[4] and VICE;[5] and was featured in a mini-documentary for PBS Digital Studios' Sound Field.[6] Dreamcrusher's work has also been discussed in scholarly articles in the fields of musicology[7] and queer/affect theory.[8]
Glass, who is non-binary,[9] began making what they describe as "nihilist queer revolt musik"[2] as a teenager sharing tracks on Myspace.[3] After years of touring and over twenty independent releases, Glass moved to New York City in 2015. The same year, Fire Talk Records released Glass's Hackers All of Them Hackers under the Dreamcrusher name to broad acclaim: the release was included in Impose's Best Albums of 2015[10] and SPIN's Best Avant Albums of 2015,[4] with VICE writing that the EP "could be the most important noise record of the year".[5]
In 2016, Dreamcrusher was included on the Adult Swim compilation NOISE alongside artists including Merzbow, clipping., Melt-Banana, Wolf Eyes, and Pharmakon.[11] They are also featured on hardcore punk band Show Me the Body's "collaborative mixtape" Corpus I,[12] as well as in a music video accompanying the 2017 release.[13]
Grudge2, released in 2018, further solidified Dreamcrusher's reputation as "one of New York’s finest noise mutants".[14] The EP's tracks include "Youth Problem," featuring vocals by Alice Glass of Crystal Castles.
Dreamcrusher released two full-length albums in the summer of 2020. May's Panopticon! was included in Bandcamp Acid Test's Best Albums of 2020,[15] Entropy's Top 10 Albums of 2020,[16] Post-Trash's Best of 2020,[17] and Mixmag's Albums of the Year.[18] One month later, they released the full-length mixtape Another Country, which was included in Afropunk's 2020 in Review.[19]
In October 2020, PBS Digital Studios' Sound Field aired a mini-documentary on Dreamcrusher, titled "The Untold Story of Noise and Experimental Music".[6] Recorded in Brooklyn, New York during the pandemic, the episode features a socially-distanced interview and live performance at Saint Vitus.