Stratosphere (25th Anniversary Edition): CD Low is a testament to his

is a testament to his unflagging love for the music that helped make him a musician

which probably accounts for it failing to become the band’s third number one in succession on the UK album charts

industrial synth sound with politically and socially charged lyricism to create their empowering brand of new-wave post-punk

And somehow still

says frontman Tom Smith

Stratosphere (25th Anniversary Edition): CD Low is a testament to hisBest listened to from inside the womb, Dusters 1998s debut Stratosphere simultaneously capped off and reinvented the slow cores first wave. A four track dreamscape that will wake the neighbors and then lull them back to sleep. Hazy, arpeggiated guitars layer over a deliberate drummer with no real place to be, as semi inaudible vocals warn of millennial malaise and subtly encourage the listener to rock out, rock out, rock out, rock out. This foil