Galaxie 500 : Rolling Stone

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October 15, 2004

Luna Call It Quits

Indie rockers' new album and tour will be their last

Recordings and Reviews

On Fire

Ten stark songs distinguished by a downbeat grace, On Fire offers a new wrinkle in American guitar rock: Where most bands gallop, Galaxie 500's slow, slow songs remind you that momentum is a function of mass as well as velocity.

Dean Wareham's disembodied, echoing voice drifts tantalizingly among the...

1989 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Biography

Galaxie 500's dusted Boston dream-pop was one of the most influential sounds to emerge from the '80s rock underground. The band took off from reference points such as the usual third albums (Velvets, Big Star) and early New Order for a sound that was seductively drowsy and intimate: Dean Wareham's quavery voice and sparse guitar, Naomi Yang's reverberating bass, and Damon Krukowski's decidedly unr...

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