Dreamcrusher

Luwayne Glass, better known as Dreamcrusher, is a Brooklyn-based noise musician from Wichita, Kansas.

Dreamcrusher has been the subject of features in The Village Voice, Pitchfork, and FADER; praised in SPIN and VICE; and was featured in a mini-documentary for PBS Digital Studios' Sound Field. Dreamcrusher's work has also been discussed in scholarly articles in the fields of musicology and queer/affect theory.

Early life and career

Glass, who is non-binary, began making what they describe as "nihilist queer revolt musik" and SPIN's Best Avant Albums of 2015, They are also featured on hardcore punk band Show Me the Body's "collaborative mixtape" Corpus I, as well as in a music video accompanying the 2017 release.

Grudge2, released in 2018, further solidified Dreamcrusher's reputation as "one of New York’s finest noise mutants". 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, Entropy's Top 10 Albums of 2020, Post-Trash's Best of 2020, and Mixmags Albums of the Year. One month later, they released the full-length mixtape Another Country, which was included in Afropunk's 2020 in Review.

In October 2020, PBS Digital Studios' Sound Field aired a mini-documentary on Dreamcrusher, titled "The Untold Story of Noise and Experimental Music". high-engagement, with FLOOD magazine describing their live show as "a full-on, full-body sensory experience". They say in interviews that they prefer "an exchange with the audience" rather than providing an isolated "spectacle," "like eyeballs are on me, but there’s not an interest"; Scholars Shoshana Rosenberg and Hannah Reardon-Smith frame the means and aims of Dreamcrusher's "affective atmosphere" as "electronics and harsh vocals (often screamed into the face of their audiences) to explore queerness, experiences of violence, and feelings of societal and relational abjection", but write that the resulting "psychophysiological states" can be transformative, generating "an ethics of care, through mutuality, solidarity and empathy". This Ain’t Heaven Recording Concern 2014 SUICIDE DELUXE Hausu Mountain / Fire Talk 2015 Katatonia NoKore 2014 HAINE Lazed In You 2014 Lemlæstelse / I'm All Broke Up Socialre 2015 Split Cassette This Ain’t Heaven with Golden Living Room 2015 Hackers All Of Them Hackers Fire Talk 2016 Quid Pro Quo Fire Talk 2018 Grudge2 CORPUS 2020 FICTION EP featuring Dis Fig