Roll the Dice make music that should be comfortable with the modal tropes of “atmospheric” and “moody”; that's what seems to fall through the cracks on the various instrumental excursions on In Dust, a relatively eclectic long player out currently on The Leaf Label. There's dollops of drone and meditative score montage synthetics lined with touches of piano and a pleasant sense of the line between dense layering and overbearing noise textures. There's even some glitch and a kind of half-timed, low-end-heavy dubstep on tracks like “Cause and Effect”. Here we have the pleasure of sharing the album's lead-off track, “Iron Bridge”, which takes its time getting started, leading us blindfolded over the misty escarpment and down into the valley of righteous drone and trembly string dramatics where a dozen voices mutter in percussive tongues through the audible haze.
