Album Review: The Alchemy of Sunset's 'Gold Dissolves to Gray'

Courtesy Austinist  Thu, 11/19/2009 - 1:17pm

Autobus Records Listening to Sunset’s Gold Dissolves To Gray, the fourth full-length album from Austin’s Bill Baird, invites to mind that brilliant line from Noah Baumbach’s Kicking and Screaming: “I’m nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday.”

The best thing this effort has to offer is its terrifically timely and magnetic aesthetic of nostalgia for the new.

At its high points, Baird seamlessly cobbles together a fresh sound that is both reminiscent (of 60s glam and 70s psychedelia) and of-the-moment,...


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