Duster: Stratosphere (CD)

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 neighbours 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".

1. Moon Age
   
2. Heading For The Door
   
3. Gold Dust
   
4. Topical Solution
   
5. Docking The Pod
   
6. The Landing
   
7. Echo, Bravo
8. Constellations
   
9. The Queen Of Hearts
10. Two Way Radio
    
11. Inside Out
    
12. Stratosphere
    
13. Reed To Hillsborough
    
14. Shadows Of Planes
15. Earth Moon Transit
    
16. The Twins / Romantica
    
17. Sideria