Notes About the Release

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 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.

Product Details

3CD + Book 3 x Compact discs

51 tracks totaling 163 minutes

1 x Moon-dusted slipcase

3 x full color digi packs

32 page full color, perfect bound book



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Moon AgeHeading For The DoorGold DustTopical SolutionDocking The PodThe LandingEcho, BravoConstellationsThe Queen Of HeartsTwo Way RadioInside OutStratosphereReed To HillsboroughShadows Of PlanesEarth Moon TransitThe Twins/RomanticaSideriaGet The DutchOperationsDiamondMe And The BirdsTravelogueThe Phantom Facing MeCookingUnrecoveryThe Breakup SuiteEverything You See (Is Your Own)Now It’s Coming BackAuto-MobileOrbitronFuzz And TimbreMy Friends Are CosmonautsCloser To The Speed Of SoundStars Will FallFour HoursLight YearsCapsule Losing ContactEast ReedAnd Things Are Mostly Ghosts (Version Over Dose Mix)IratoMemphis SophisticateThe Motion PictureAnd Things (Are Mostly Ghosts)August RelativityWant No Light To ShineHaunt My Sleep [Previously Unissued]Peyote [Previously Unissued]Something That I Need [Previously Unissued]What You're Doing To Me [Previously Unissued]Faint [Previously Unissued]The Hours [Previously Unissued]