Duster at Baby's All Right
Duster at Baby's All Right in December (more by P Squared)

Duster announce Numero Group box set, share previously unreleased song

Duster at Baby's All Right
Duster at Baby’s All Right in December (more by P Squared)

Highly influential indie vets Duster finally returned and played their first show in 18 years with (Sandy) Alex G and Girlpool’s Harmony Tividad (two acts they influenced) in Brooklyn in December, followed by two headlining Brooklyn shows. They’ve been teasing new music and Numero Group reissues, and while the new music is still TBA, the Numero Group reissues have now been announced and the previously unreleased song “What You’re Doing To Me” has been released. It’s a cool, atmospheric, sorta-psychedelic indie rock song that fits in perfectly with the rest of their previously-released discography, and does a good job of reminding you how much Duster’s influence is still felt today. Listen below.

The song will appear on the new box set Capsule Losing Contact, a 4xLP or 3xCD set that includes the band’s two full-length albums (1998’s Stratosphere and 2000’s Contemporary Movement), plus 1999’s 1975 EP, singles, demos, and five other previously unreleased songs. The description reads:

Mastered from a mix of crusty cassettes, decaying DATs, and warbly analog tape,
Capsule Losing Contact is housed in a rusted 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.

The box set comes out March 22 via Numero Group. More info and pre-order here. New song, trailer video, artwork, and full tracklist below.

Duster’s reunion tour continues with West Coast shows this month, and those dates are listed below too.

Duster

Tracklist
Stratosphere:
01 Moon Age
02 Heading for the Door
03 Gold Dust
04 Topical Solution
05 Docking the Pod
06 The Landing
07 Echo, Bravo
08 Constellations
09 The Queen of Hearts
10 Two Way Radio
11 Inside Out
12 Stratosphere
13 Reed to Hillsborough
14 Shadows of Planes
15 Earth Moon Transit
16 The Twins / Romantica
17 Sideria

Contemporary Movement:
18 Get the Dutch
19 Operations
20 Diamond
21 Me and the Birds
22 Travelogue
23 The Phantom Facing Me
24 Cooking
25 Unrecovery
26 The Breakup Suite
27 Everything You See (Is Your Own)
28 Now It’s Coming Back
29 Auto-Mobile

Transmission, Flux 7″:
30 Orbitron
31 Fuzz and Timbre
32 My Friends Are Cosmonauts
33 Closer to the Speed of Sound
34 Stars Will Fall

Apex, Trance-Like 7″:
35 Four Hours
36 Light Years

Compilation Tracks:
37 Capsule Losing Contact
38 East Reed
39 And Things Are Mostly Ghosts (Version Over Dose Mix)

1975 EP:
40 Irato
41 Memphis Sophisticate
42 The Motion Picture
43 And Things (Are Mostly Ghosts)
44 August Relativity
45 Want No Light to Shine

Unreleased Tracks:
46 Haunt My Sleep
47 Peyote
48 Something That I Need
49 What You’re Doing to Me
50 Faint
51 The Hours

Duster — 2019 Tour Dates
01/20 Seattle, WA @ Barboza
01/22 Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
01/24 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
01/25 San Jose, CA @ The Ritz
01/27 Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
01/28 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
01/29 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress