Duster
Duster
Release Date: Dec 13, 2019
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Noise-Rock, Slowcore
Record label: Muddguts
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Album Review: Duster by Duster
Excellent, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 8/10
After nearly 20 years in obscurity, Duster have returned with their signature fuzzed-out, so-called "tranq rock" on their third full-length record, Duster. In their return, the band have remained true to their loose and lengthy song structures of the late '90s and early-aughts — something epitomized by Capsule Losing Contact, a box set retrospective released this summer, which signalled their long-awaited re-emergence from the ether. As with the band's 1998 LP, Stratosphere, Duster evokes vastness through use of crude, analogue ….
Based on rating 8/10
Duster were victims of bad timing and missed chances. The San Jose, California trio has experienced a renaissance as of late, thanks to a comprehensive box set and vinyl reissues of their only two full-length albums through archival music label Numero Group, Contemporary Movement and Stratosphere. But nineteen years ago, the prospect of discovering their spacey, homespun indie-rock was near-impossible considering their past label, Up Records, folded.