Rusty (Rodan album)

Rodan formed in 1992 and would release a demo shortly thereafter called the Aviary demo, including two songs that would later be released as another demo, How the Winter Passed. 6 of the songs on the Aviary demo would later be re-recorded and turned into the band's debut album, Rusty.^[4]

Rusty contains elements of art punk and rockabilly. Ned Raggett of AllMusic said that Rodan were a band "with clear roots but also one with a sense of its own strong fusion." Some of the tracks utilize audio feedback, and some of the riffs have drawn comparisons to Funkadelic and Fugazi. Music journalist Andrew Earles said: "Rusty marks its own genesis of noisy indie rock and the specific strain of noise rock/post-hardcore that followed in its wake. Sorry, calling it math rock would be using the album's most popular descriptor, but it would also sell short the album and the band that made it."^[5][6]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[7]
NME	7/10[8]

Rusty received critical acclaim and has since been cited as an influential album on the post-rock and post-hardcore scenes of the 1990s, often compared favorably to Slint's 1991 album Spiderland.^[2][9] Rolling Stone wrote that the band creates "ambient, atmospheric guitar noise that suddenly gives way to a racket that sounds vaguely similar to a construction site."^[10]

AllMusic writer Ned Raggett said, "this is an album to readily get lost in. The evident variety is another reason to listen, not least because everything is handled so aptly, parts of a greater overall whole."^[7]