All grunge bands didn't sound alike, even from one album to the next. Between 1992's masterful Sweet Oblivion and this 1996 opus, Screaming Trees added some texture and even a little lightness to their heavy-as-granite sound. The ethos was still a battered one at times, but Mark Lanegan sang as if he'd chosen not to disappear on the same path as Alice in Chains' Layne Staley. "I walk a ghost town, used to be my city," he evenly declaims before his fellows drop a groove shaded with lessons learned from Zep's Physical Graffiti. That song, "Dying Days," is hardly the only one that evokes the trippy musical steps of Plant and Page - or their curiosity about black spiritual music. The greatest achievement of Dust is the roiling "Gospel Plow," a vow not to add to that roll call of vanished spirits.