In 2004, Nostromo caught everyone off guard with Hysteron-Proteron, an acoustic record that grew out of a one-off festival performance. “The idea didn’t come from us in the first place,” the band explained at the time, initially skeptical before getting into it.
The point wasn’t to make Nostromo more accessible, but to let these songs exist in a different way. As the band put it back then, it was about “removing all the ultra-violent aspects created by distortion” to hear what these compositions could become “with different means and intentions, but played by the same people.”
The band didn’t rewrite the songs: “We only worked on the arrangements, not on the compositions.” That’s what gives Hysteron-Proteron its particular strength: the songs stay the same, but everything changes in the way you hear them.
In 2026, Humus Records is bringing the record back for the first time on streaming platforms, alongside a new vinyl pressing with reworked artwork and a gatefold sleeve.
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