On its second album, the Asheville five-piece goes big and loud, scaling up its shoegaze-indebted sound while frontwoman Karly Hartzman buries an undercurrent of anxiety beneath the clutter.
Direct from the mixing board at a stop on Codeine's 1993 swing through the Midwest, opening for Mazzy Star, this finds Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle and Doug Scharin running through their hits at Chicago's Lounge Ax for a crowd of chatty "120 Minutes" fan
Duster's unique blend of fuzzy guitars, bargain synths, muffled percussion, and hushed vocals anticipated chillwave, mumblecore, and corecore, elegantly illustrating the holy trinity of slacker vices: cigarettes, coffee, and the weed supreme.
"Music for dark spaces and closed eyelids, deeply psychedelic but without sprawl, ambient music with a serrated edge of punk."-The Ringer
"Warm, fuzzed-out sounds that hit home like a tight, melancholic embrace from your favorite person."-Vice