STRATOSPHERE (Light Blue Vinyl)

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." "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 1.1MOON AGE 1.2HEADING FOR THE DOOR 1.3GOLD DUST 1.4TOPICAL SOLUTION 1.5DOCKING THE POD 1.6THE LANDING 1.7CONSTELLATIONS 1.8THE QUEEN OF HEARTS 1.9TWO WAY RADIO 1.10INSIDE OUT 1.11STRATOSPHERE 1.12REED TO HILLSBOROUGH 1.13SHADOWS OF PLANES 1.14EARTH MOON TRANSIT 1.15THE TWINS/ROMANTICA 1.16SIDERIA