Artist: Galaxie 500
Genre(s):
Indie
Discography:
Uncollected
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Today
Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Though reprehensively unmarked in their own lifespan, Galaxie 500 later emerged as one of the polar subway groups of the post-punk earned run average; lackadaisical and enigmatical, their minimalist dirges presaged the heighten of both the shoegazer and slowcore movements of the 1990s. The grouping formed in Boston, MA, in 1986 and comprised vocalist/guitarist Dean Wareham (a transplanted New Zealand aboriginal), bassist Naomi Yang and drummer Damon Krukowski, longtime friends wHO first base met in high shoal in New York City before all trey attended Harvard University. Wareham and Krukowski ab initio teamed in the passing Speedy and the Castanets, which split after their bass actor experient a religious conversion; upon re-forming, the pair recruited Yang to play bass part, although she had no prior musical live.
Named after a friend's car, Galaxie 500 began playing live end-to-end Boston and New York before recording a three-song demonstration tape which they sent to Shimmy Disc foreman Kramer, wHO in agreement to become the trio's producer. After bowing in early 1988 with the singles "Tower" and "Oblivious" (the latter track featured on a flexi-disc included in an exit of Chemical Imbalance mag), they issued their uncut debut, Today, which highlighted the group's distinct, evolving legal roughness Wareham's eerie, plaintive tenor, ovoid songs, and slow motion guitar textures against Yang's warm, unstable bass lines and Krukowski's lean drumming.
After signing to the U.S. subdivision of Rough Trade, Galaxie 500 issued its defining consequence, 1989's evocative On Fire, a unco assured and fat record book including the superb singles "Blue Thunder" and "When Will You Come Home." After a limited edition 7" spillage featuring live renditions of the Beatles' "Rainfall" and Jonathan Richman's "Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste," the grouping returned in 1990 with This Is Our Music, a fan out compendium spotlighting the wry, gay exclusive "Fourth of July" and a persistent cover of Yoko Ono's "Listen, the Snow Is Falling." Following a subsequent circuit, Galaxie 500 disbanded after Wareham phoned Yang and Krukowski to say he was quitting the grouping.
A few months later, after Wareham formed his unexampled dance band, Luna, Rough Trade went insolvent, and with the label's dying went the trio's trey albums, as well as their royalties. In 1991, at an auction bridge of Rough Trade's assets, Krukowski purchased the skipper tapes for the group's music, and five years later the Rykodisc label issued a boxwood set containing Galaxie 500's complete recorded end product; a antecedently unreleased 1990 hot put, dubbed Kobenhavn, followed in 1997. In the lag, after first base resurfacing under the refer Pierre Etoile, Krukowski and Yang later recorded as Damon and Naomi; to boot, the duette served as the rhythm section for the Wayne Rogers-led Magic Hour.
