SOOJ - Crusher SOOJ

Sooj, a new collaboration between Duster and Dirty Art Club. In this diseased world where entireties of lives are cursed, Sooj makes a small racket for traveling alone, or dream- ing together, or doing nothing at all.

Picking up where their 2024 two-sider Anhedonia II b/w Ecstasy Cowgirl left off, Crusher sees Duster’s slowcore drift dissolve into Dirty Art Club’s sample-heavy, collage-minded production. The result is neither band, nor side project, but something more elusive — a third space built from tape hiss, chopped memory, and late-night signal bleed. Across its runtime, the album avoids the gravitational pull of nostalgia. Instead, it hovers in a liminal present — part collaboration, part escape route.