July 27 street date. Duster Bennett was a British blues singer and musician. He started out working as a session harmonica player and member of John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Bennett's music was country blues with the occasional gospel music offering. He recorded three albums and a string of singles for Blues Horizon, all featured on this 2 CD compilation.
October 1 street date. Y2K prepper-rock for the underemployed. Tracked at home in 1999, the "1975" EP expands on "Stratosphere"'s slacker-positive dreamscape, with layers of guitars both clean and fuzzy, humming organ, and - gasp! - a drum machine. Needle down, candles on.
March 4 street date. Now on cassette. Best listened to from inside the womb, Duster's 1998 debut "Stratosphere" simultaneously capped off and reinvented slowcore'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".
March 4 street date. Now on cassette. A muffled cry into the technological darkness, "Contemporary Movement" slid into the world right as the MP3 was seeping out of college dorms. A 39-minute drift into the void, drenched in Cold War-era reverb and then submerged in four track hiss for good measure. Duster constructed a Brutalist masterpiece on the outskirts of a suburban mall, as if to say, "we were here".
September 23 street date. Gather your loved ones, "Together" is here. Duster’s fourth album is a 13 song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and over-driven rhythm tracks. "I know people say, Oh Duster music so sad, we've even said it ourselves before", Clay Parton said. "But it's a lot more like absurdism than nihilism".
September 23 street date. Gather your loved ones, "Together" is here. Duster’s fourth album is a 13 song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and over-driven rhythm tracks. "I know people say, Oh Duster music so sad, we've even said it ourselves before", Clay Parton said. "But it's a lot more like absurdism than nihilism".
September 23 street date. Gather your loved ones, "Together" is here. Duster’s fourth album is a 13 song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and over-driven rhythm tracks. "I know people say, Oh Duster music so sad, we've even said it ourselves before", Clay Parton said. "But it's a lot more like absurdism than nihilism".
September 23 street date. Gather your loved ones, "Together" is here. Duster’s fourth album is a 13 song exploration of comfortable, interplanetary goth. A sonic vaseline of submerged guitars, solder-burned synths, and over-driven rhythm tracks. "I know people say, Oh Duster music so sad, we've even said it ourselves before", Clay Parton said. "But it's a lot more like absurdism than nihilism".
Available now. Back in print with new coloured vinyl variant! 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, 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.
Available now. Back in print with new coloured vinyl variant! 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, 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.
March 4 street date. Now on cassette. Best listened to from inside the womb, Duster's 1998 debut "Stratosphere" simultaneously capped off and reinvented slowcore'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".
June 14 street date. A muffled cry into the technological darkness, "Contemporary Movement" slid into the world right as the mp3 was seeping out of college dorms. A 39-minute drift into the void, drenched in Cold War-era reverb and then submerged in four track hiss for good measure. Duster constructed a Brutalist masterpiece on the outskirts of a suburban mall, as if to say, "we were here".
Available now. Slowcore cult favorite DUSTER's first album of new material in 20 years after selling out 4,000 copies of the recent Numero reissue box set and latest US tour. “Duster's songs sound spotty, tender and messy; their lo-fi production audibly shifts from track to track, dominated by uncomplicated guitar parts, tape hiss and cavernous spaciousness, vocals low in the mix. The band originally recorded in a home studio — a living room converted into a recording space — on four-track and eight-track machines, starting with bits of ideas that different members would build on. That fuzzed-out, syrupy sound is why Duster is often compared to other '90s slowcore bands like Codeine, Low, Galaxie 500 and Red House Painters. But the sense of experimentation and openness—which shows up both in how the songs come together and in their infrequent and sometimes-unintelligible lyrics—is what makes Duster feel different.”—NPR. Stereogum call them "your favorite indie band's favorite indie band."
July 27 street date. Dustern is a Bay Area band formed by partners Derek DeRoche and LiHe Han with the aim to create metal-inspired music infused with shoegaze taking influence from pioneering bands as diverse, yet comparable, as Earth and Alcest. The band solidified it's lineup and reworked it's sound by recruiting Derek's cousin, Dan Brownson, and Patrick Spain (Catapult the Dead). They teamed up with sound engineer Sam Guerard (Dwel) to record their full length debut.
October 16 street date. "Silver Sky" - the most recent studio recording in The Infamous Stringdusters; constant, relentless, revelatory musical evolution - is released in Fall 2012 in a very special "Silver Sky - Deluxe Edition". The album is being made available on vinyl at retail for the very first time.
October 16 street date. Double CD featuring two separate Infamous Stringdusters releases, packaged together for this exclusive physical release - "Silver Sky" (studio) and "We'll Do It Live" (live). These albums have never been released at retail before, and will be packaged together as an exclusive physical "deluxe" package. NON-RETURNABLE.
October 16 street date. We'll Do It Live is a seamless live recording culled from two epic 2011 performances - is released at retail on vinyl for the first time, as a double-gatefold LP.
September 9 street date. This 2CD set contains the A and B side of every 78 and 45 released in the period 1952 to 1962. It features original releases from Trumpet, Meteor, Flair, Checker, Modern, Chief, Vee Jay, Fire and Enjoy. The recordings were produced mainly in Chicago and New York with others made in Mississippi, New Orleans and Los Angeles and constitutes as formidable a body of work as could be found anywhere in blues history. His impact over some of the most notable artists of the past fifty years cannot be denied with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Greg Allman, Brian Jones (Rolling Stones), Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac), Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood citing him as a major influence. Although there have been many Elmore James CDs there has never been one like this covering all his singles for different labels. Fully detailed liner notes.
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