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Duster review – indie rockers impress amid unlikely TikTok renaissance

Now streaming in huge numbers long after their mid-90s years, the Californians’ nuanced yet forceful delivery punches in all the right places

When the duo of Clay Parton and Canaan Dove Amber – bumped up to a four-piece band for live shows – step out on to the stage they are greeted with rabid enthusiasm from a notably young audience, even when just tuning up. When they begin the hypnotic strums of The Twins/Romantica, followed by the piercing hiss and dense fuzz of Orbitron, they quickly lock into a mood for the evening that feels equal parts subtle beauty and shattering devastation. The closing Echo, Bravo perhaps comes a little early for some, with the show concluding after just an hour, but the screeching feedback, gut-rumbling bass and clattering drums, intertwined with the dual vocals of Parton and Amber, is a perfect finale for an evening that ends exactly as it started: with the audience’s colossal screams for Duster’s unexpected slow jam hits.

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