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90
These tracks show that Duster didn't get back together just to take a nostalgia trip; they wanted to make new, quietly exciting music that pushes the outer limits of the group's sound in order to reach new destinations.
6y
80
What's notable about Duster's abrupt tonal shifts is how the trio allows themselves to take chances. As it often happens with cult acts, there's a tendency to remember a specific aesthetic with rose-tinted glasses.
6y
80
Duster is the band’s most sonically ambitious record to date and they have learned more than a few tricks in their time apart.
6y
80
With the band's integrity, commitment to their craft and immunity to the passing of time, they're sure to make their patient fans happy with Duster.
6y
80
Their self-titled third album follows a two-decade hiatus, and suggests a maturation into more structured songwriting.
6y
75
The best way to experience this band is to simply sit back and let the music wash over you, seeping into your body, and though Duster doesn’t quite recapture the ineffable sublimity of Stratosphere, one never gets the sense that the band is straining to do so. They simply seem content to be back, and the results are more than satisfying.
6y
74
The slowcore icons’ new album bears all the hallmarks of their classic records: plodding drums, skeletal basslines, and guitar work that sparkles in the darkness like dew on a cobweb.
6y
I woke up this past Friday feeling an immense sadness, but it didn't pertain to me either. I figured whatever it was, it had to be in the news. I'm always hesitant to look though. Despite the news of America's impeachment process, mass shootings, detainment camps, financial inequality hitting an all time high and our climate crisis hitting an all time low, among many other things, many might still be able to "manage" in light of this. However, the definitive blow has to come from the ... read more
Great music to disassociate on my bed to at 2am, while my country further rips itself in two, irreparably so.
Duster is a big comeback for the band after 19 years of not releasing an album. This is a pretty depressing and Lo-fi record with a dark atmosphere, pleasant instrumentation, and good vocals even sometimes when I can't hear them.
This was a hard album to sit through, not because its bad but because of how raw and emotional it is. Each tracks feels so desolate and fuzzy it just left me staring into space drowned in thoughts.
Highlights: "Letting Go" "Hoya Paranoia" "The Thirteen"
Two decades after they closed their original classic legacy, Duster's return was marked by a merge into modern times, a merge that rarely eschewed their signature profoundness in favor of a less exceedingly heavy slowcore style. And, also, cat.
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Track List
| 1 | Copernicus Crater 4:49 | 83 |
| 2 | I'm Lost 2:47 | 83 |
| 3 | Chocolate and Mint 4:52 | 91 |
| 4 | Summer War 4:38 | 87 |
| 5 | Lomo 2:44 | 81 |
| 6 | Damaged 2:17 | 83 |
| 7 | Letting Go 3:55 | 87 |
| 8 | Go Back 3:47 | 73 |
| 9 | Hoya Paranoia 5:18 | 82 |
| 10 | Ghoulish 4:27 | 84 |
| 11 | Ghost World 3:17 | 82 |
| 12 | The Thirteen 2:57 | 81 |
Total Length: 45 minutes
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1y
Dude the gorging guitar chord on “Go Back” is SOOO good. I get why people don’t like it but I think it fits really nicely in the tracklist.