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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nSan 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.<\/p>\n
In honor of the announcement, the band have shared one of the previously unreleased songs included in the set.”‘What You’re Doing To Me’ was recorded in Jason’s basement in Seattle on 4-track during some lost time when we were isolated, distant stations just enduring the cold dark winds,” the band state. “Recording songs and putting them in a bag to do something with them eventually is kinda how we’ve always done it.”<\/em><\/p>\n Mastered from a mix of crusty cassettes, decaying DATs, and warbly analog tape, Capsule Losing Contact<\/em> is housed in a moon dusted slipcase with all four albums secured in heavyweight tip-on jackets. An accompanying lyric book guides the listener through Duster’s lo-fi worldview, adorned with the last gasps of an expired golden age as captured on Polaroid and disposable Kodak cameras.<\/p>\n Listen to “What You’re Doing To Me” below, and pre-order Capsule Losing Contact<\/em> here<\/a>. <\/p>\n