“It’s a lot more like absurdism than nihilism.”
So don’t call it sadcore. Duster, a band formed in the South Bay and now based in Santa Cruz, released their fourth album Together on Chicago-based record label Numero Group. It’s slow and whole, minimal and meditatively rhythmic—as if a humble singer-songwriter with simple sounds boarded a spaceship to slowly sail the cosmos.





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