In 2019, Lightning Dust broke up. Not the band, but Amber Webber and Joshua Wells -the couple at the core of it- ended their longtime relationship. In the wake of the split, the two musicians realized that Lightning Dust was still important to them and decided to stay together as an artistic partnership. The experience made them think about nostalgia as a concept and how this sort of longing for the past can be destructive, cancerous, useless. Webber and Wells reconvened virtually in mid-2020 to work together again as creative comrades, sharing some new ideas by correspondence, stitching together their song fragments into the dramatic arrangements now heard across Lightning Dust's album 'Nostalgia Killer'. The album title couldn't set a more perfect expectation for what the album holds. This is a winding and moving album; sensual, confessional and free of fences. Each song builds with inexorable force, often pulling back to a whisper before washing over the listener completely.