Duster
Contemporary Movement LP (Diamond Dust vinyl)

San Jose slowcore / space rock trio Duster squeezed off this sophomore album in 2000, two years after the cult hit Stratosphere, and then disappeared for 18 years (they’ve since reformed to tour and oversee this reissue of their catalog by Numero Group). While Stratosphere is the one everyone always talks about, it had a very cobbled-together feel to it, with fidelity ranging from 4-track demo to Crystal Pepsi. "Experimental depressed music" (as they’ve retroactively dubbed it) is still the name of the game, and with the vocals nudged up in the mix a bit, the record is an easy touchstone for the incoming 2nd emo wave. Opening track "Get The Dutch" opens with a blaze of guitars resentful at Y2K’s failure to deliver on its promise of doom and destruction. All 12 songs reverberate with memorable riffs and even more indelible lyrics, with no bleep-bloop interludes or lo-fi fat to speak of whatsoever. Feast your ears on the stoned jubilance of "Travelogue," the cavernous "Operations," tempered shoegazeism "Everything You See" or the terminally dejected "Diamond."

NEW / Released in 2000 / Reissue 2021 

Tracklist:

A1 Get The Dutch

A2 Operations

A3 Diamond

A4 Me And The Birds

A5 Travelogue

B1 The Phantom Facing Me

B2 Cooking

B3 Unrecovery

B4 The Breakup Suite

B5 Everything You See (Is Your Own)

B6 Now It's Coming Back

B7 Auto-Mobile