A couple years into the new millennium and the emo scene that once had enough space for a band as brazen in their fusion of slowcore, jazz, and post-hardcore as Boston's Karate would barely be reflected in a cookie-cutter style commercialized by major lab
2023 marks twenty-five years since the original release of 99th Dream and to commemorate here's a new valve realm remaster from the original DAT tapes that brings in some warmth and bottom end.
Just as Duster’s landmark debut album Stratosphere was making its first orbit, Clay Parton, Dove Amber, and Jason Albertini tracked a largely improvised companion capsule, an ode to ’70s Kosmische - a skeletal space nap for the prozac generation