Nostalgia is the first full-length album by Dust Sculptures. The final track listing was compiled from materials written from 2011-2013.

I spent the last half of my college years sharing rent in a house with my closest friends. We all worked different schedules, coming and going from this dorm-like habitat at any and all hours of the day. It was here that you would find a sleep-deprived version of myself tinkering away in makeshift recording environments. Singing in bathrooms, drumming in the basement, tinkering with guitar tones in the bedrooms, shooting films in the garage. What began as a place to simply survive while working our way through school became a really special space for me.

I was an art student with full-time hours and a midnight shift at a UPS airport hub. This meant very long nights under the stars, rain, ice, snow, and blasts of wind from enormous freight airliners. With classes the following morning, day and night would blend together. The nature of my job left me idle at times to think to myself out on the airstrip. More times than not, I would think about the music I wasn't making. If it wasn't the music, it was the films. I guess "Nostalgia" was born out there.

I would return home to my house/dorm/dwelling/makeshift recording space and record at the most random hours that fell into my lap. The others in the house learned how to sleep around the noise. My wife eventually got to the point where she had trouble sleeping without hearing my constant musical tinkerings. I think that nostalgia became a sleepy album this way. I remember falling asleep on these tracks often myself.

I would spend the following three years working on getting my music to the point where I felt it justified a full album. The varying production values across this album tattle on my learning curve. I honestly grew slowly by making mistakes and correcting them on following tracks. It became a bit easier every time to get the sounds I wanted.

I have a lot of good memories when I think back about this enormous process. This was definitely a project that helped me to learn a bit about myself and share this experience with my loved ones (especially my wife who spent countless hours shooting the films with me). We scouted so many remote locations, and often used the videos as an excuse to urban-ex.

The final result is a slow-burning piece of progressive music that confronts the fear that comes with aging, the process of letting go, and the importance in finding the reason to keep moving forward.