Contemporary Movement
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{{Infobox album
| name = Contemporary Movement
| type = studio
| artist = Duster
| cover = Duster - Contemporary Movement front cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{Start_date|2000|8|22}}
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = {{flatlist|
| length = 39:49
| label = Up Records
| producer =
| prev_title = Stratosphere
| prev_year = 1998
| next_title = Capsule Losing Contact
| next_year = 2019
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last1=Hurley|first1=Sean|title=Duster – Contemporary Movement|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/contemporary-movement-mw0000085412|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=30 July 2017}}
|rev2 = Pitchfork
|rev2Score = 8.4/10{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2493-contemporary-movement/|title=Duster: Contemporary Movement|website=Pitchfork}}
}}
Contemporary Movement is the second studio album by American slowcore band Duster.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/duster-mn0000153284/biography|title=Duster | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web |title=The Old Disappearing-Reappearing Band Trick |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/705591894/the-old-disappearing-reappearing-band-trick |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417070759/https://www.npr.org/2019/03/22/705591894/the-old-disappearing-reappearing-band-trick |archive-date=17 April 2024 |website=NPR.org}} The album was released in 2000 on Up Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/2/22/18233366/duster-reissue-discogs-rare-music-vinyl|title=Back to the Stratosphere: How the Rarest Music in the World Comes Back|first=Mark|last=Richardson|date=February 22, 2019|website=The Ringer}}{{Cite web |title=Duster |url=https://www.thestranger.com/events/36718182/duster |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191120094001/https://www.thestranger.com/events/36718182/duster |archive-date=20 November 2019 |website=The Stranger}} It was their last album before the band's hiatus later that year.
Unlike Duster's previous album Stratosphere, all three band members were involved in the making of Contemporary Movement.
The album was issued on both vinyl and CD. The album's cover art depicts the parking structures at the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport. Contemporary Movement was later reissued as part of the Capsule Losing Contact box set.
Critical reception
Portland Mercury wrote that "Duster’s unhurried compositions never fully clarify or cohere; voices hide behind dense washes of guitar, verses reach toward choruses that aren’t there, songs end abruptly before they can be caught, tagged, and filed away."{{Cite web|url=https://www.portlandmercury.com/events/24219609/duster-floating-room|title=Duster, Floating Room|website=Portland Mercury}} Pitchfork gave the album an 8.4/10, writing "there's nothing here nearly as abstract as the buzzing drone construction that was Stratosphere
Track listing
{{track listing
| all_writing = Clay Parton, Dove Amber, Jason Albertini
| title1 = Get the Dutch
| length1 = 4:47
| title2 = Operations
| length2 = 3:30
| title3 = Diamond
| length3 = 3:26
| title4 = Me and the Birds
| length4 = 1:35
| title5 = Travelogue
| length5 = 4:36
| title6 = The Phantom Facing Me
| length6 = 2:56
| title7 = Cooking
| length7 = 4:35
| title8 = Unrecovery
| length8 = 3:34
| title9 = The Breakup Suite
| length9 = 3:21
| title10 = Everything You See (Is Your Own)
| length10 = 2:40
| title11 = Now It’s Coming Back
| length11 = 2:43
| title12 = Auto-Mobile
| length12 = 2:07
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