[8] Glass, who is non-binary,[9] began making what they describe as "nihilist queer revolt musik"[2] as a teenager sharing tracks on Myspace.
[11] They are also featured on hardcore punk band Show Me the Body's "collaborative mixtape" Corpus I,[12] as well as in a music video accompanying the 2017 release.
[19] In October 2020, PBS Digital Studios' Sound Field aired a mini-documentary on Dreamcrusher, titled "The Untold Story of Noise and Experimental Music".
Those praising Dreamcrusher's live performances often acknowledge that this combination––of high volume, unpredictable movement, and even flicker vertigo––can be jarring,[3] producing feelings of disorientation and vulnerability.
[23] 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".