Capsule Losing Contact – Duster [CD]

San Jose’s sonic cure-all for the Y2K hangover that never materialized, Duster emerged from a cloud of lonely bong rips to take indie rock to the moon, and beyond. Scotch-taped guitars toggle between a chorus of brittle winter trees and a blanket of distorted fuzz. The low rumble of a cardboard box being kicked in a dead mall keeps pace in the background, as muffled, sung-spoken vocals ponder the great mysteries of modern mundanity. Three years of home recording accidents and blown-out 2AM studio experiments are spread across four LPs or three CDs, gathering the short-lived trio’s ‘Stratosphere’ and ‘Contemporary Movement’ albums, 1975 EP, singles, demos, and other miscellaneous debris into one escape pod, now free to drift in the endless void of space.

Disc 1
1. Moon Age – Duster (1.07)
2. Heading for the Door – Duster (3.08)
3. Gold Dust – Duster (2.06)
4. Topical Solution – Duster (5.01)
5. Docking the Pod – Duster (1.50)
6. The Landing – Duster (2.43)
7. Constellations – Duster (3.43)
8. The Queen of Hearts – Duster (4.19)
9. Two Way Radio – Duster (0.19)
10. Inside Out – Duster (2.21)
11. Stratosphere – Duster (6.57)
12. Reed to Hillsborough – Duster (4.00)
13. Shadows of Planes – Duster (1.50)
14. Earth Moon Transit – Duster (4.23)
15. The Twins/Romantica – Duster (3.42)
16. Sideria – Duster (1.50)
Disc 2
1. Get the Dutch – Duster (4.47)
2. Operations – Duster (3.30)
3. Diamond – Duster (3.26)
4. Me and the Birds – Duster (1.35)
5. Travelogue – Duster (4.36)
6. The Phantom Facing Me – Duster (2.55)
7. Cooking – Duster (4.35)
8. Unrecovery – Duster (3.34)
9. The Breakup Suite – Duster (3.20)
10. Everything You See (Is Your Own) – Duster (2.40)
11. Now It’s Coming Back – Duster (2.43)
12. Auto-mobile – Duster (2.08)
Disc 3
1. Orbitron – Duster (2.19)
2. Fuzz and Timbre – Duster (0.37)
3. My Friends Are Cosmonauts – Duster (1.44)
4. Closer to the Speed of Sound – Duster (2.59)
5. Stars Will Fall – Duster (1.58)
6. Four Hours – Duster (3.42)
7. Light Years – Duster (3.39)
8. Echo, Bravo – Duster (4.34)
9. Capsule Losing Contact – Duster (6.17)
10. East Reed – Duster (1.03)
11. And Things Are Mostly Ghosts (Version Over Dose Mix) – Duster (3.57)
12. Irato – Duster (4.17)
13. Memphis Sophisticate – Duster (4.09)
14. The Motion Picture – Duster (2.43)
15. And Things (Are Mostly Ghosts) – Duster (3.19)
16. August Relativity – Duster (3.09)
17. Want No Light to Shine – Duster (6.01)
18. Haunt My Sleep (Bonus Track) – Duster (2.43)
19. Peyote (Bonus Track) – Duster (1.37)
20. Something That I Need (Bonus Track) – Duster (1.47)
21. What You’re Doing to Me (Bonus Track) – Duster (6.08)
22. Faint (Bonus Track) – Duster (3.16)
23. The Hours (Bonus Track) – Duster (2.14)