Description

Quadruple LP box set. 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.

Mastered from a mix of crusty cassettes, decaying DATs, and warbly analog tape, Capsule Losing Contact is housed in a moon dusted slipcase with all four albums secured in heavy weight 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.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Moon Age01:07
  • 2.Heading For The Door03:08
  • 3.Gold Dust02:06
  • 4.Topical Solution05:01
  • 5.Docking the Pod01:50
  • 6.The Landing02:43
  • 7.Constellations03:43
  • 8.The Queen of Hearts04:19

B

  • 1.Two Way Radio00:19
  • 2.Inside Out02:21
  • 3.Stratosphere06:57
  • 4.Reed to Hillsborough04:00
  • 5.Shadows of Planes01:50
  • 6.Earth Moon Transit04:23
  • 7.The Twins / Romantica03:42
  • 8.Sideria01:50

C

  • 1.Get the Dutch04:47
  • 2.Operations03:30
  • 3.Diamond03:26
  • 4.Me and the Birds01:35
  • 5.Travelogue04:36

D

  • 1.The Phantom Facing Me02:55
  • 2.Cooking04:35
  • 3.Unrecovery03:34
  • 4.The Breakup Suite03:20
  • 5.Everything You See (Is Your Own)02:40
  • 6.Now It's Coming Back02:43
  • 7.Auto-Mobile02:08

E

  • 1.Orbitron02:19
  • 2.Fuzz and Timbre00:37
  • 3.My Friends Are Cosmonauts01:44
  • 4.Closer to the Speed of Sound02:59
  • 5.Stars Will Fall01:58
  • 6.For Hours03:42
  • 7.Light Years03:39

F

  • 1.Echo Bravo04:34
  • 2.Capsule Losing Contact06:17
  • 3.East Reed01:03
  • 4.And Things Are Mostly Ghosts (Version Overdose Mix)03:57

G

  • 1.Irato04:17
  • 2.Memphis Sophisticate04:09
  • 3.The Motion Picture02:43
  • 4.And Things (Are Mostly Ghosts)03:19
  • 5.August Relativity03:09
  • 6.Want No Light To Shine06:01

H

  • 1.Haunt My Sleep02:43
  • 2.Peyote01:37
  • 3.Something That I Need01:47
  • 4.What You're Doing to Me06:08
  • 5.Faint03:16
  • 6.The Hours02:14

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