Label: Numero
Reissued 10/6/2023, Originally released 1998
Best listened to from inside the womb, Duster's 1998's debut Stratosphere simultaneously capped off and reinvented the slow core's first wave. A four track dreamscape that will wake the neighbors and then lull them back to sleep. Hazy, arpeggiated guitars layer over a deliberate drummer with no real place to be, as semi-inaudible vocals warn of millennial malaise and subtly encourage the listener to "rock out, rock out, rock out, rock out." This foil stamped and numbered 25th anniversary edition comes with a lyric sheet and poster. "Music for dark spaces and closed eyelids, deeply psychedelic but without sprawl, ambient music with a serrated edge of punk."-The Ringer "Warm, fuzzed-out sounds that hit home like a tight, melancholic embrace from your favorite person."-Vice
Track listing:
- Moon Age
- Heading For The Door
- Gold Dust
- Topical Solution
- Docking The Pod
- The Landing
- Constellations
- The Queen Of Hearts
- Two Way Radio
- Inside Out
- Stratosphere
- Reed To Hillsborough
- Shadows Of Planes
- Earth Moon Transit
- The Twins/Romantica
- Sideria