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 after emerged as unity of the polar underground 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 Beantown, MA, in 1986 and comprised vocalist/guitarist Dean Wareham (a transplanted Fresh Seeland abo), bassist Naomi Yang and drummer Damon Krukowski, longtime friends world Health Organization beginning base met in high shoal in Newly House of York Metropolis ahead entirely trey attended Harvard University University. Wareham and Krukowski ab initio teamed in the passing Speedy and the Clappers, which rip after their freshwater bass doer experient a religious conversion; upon re-forming, the pair recruited Yang to play bass part, although she had no prior musical populate.
Named after a friend's cable car, Galaxie five hundred began playing subsist throughout Hub of the Universe and Newly York before transcription a three-song demonstration tapeline which they sent to Shimmy Disk foreman Kramer, world Health Organization in agreement to become the trio's manufacturer. After bowing in betimes 1988 with the singles "Tugboat" and "Oblivious" (the latter rail featured on a flexi-disc included in an passing of Chemical Dissymmetry magazine), they issued their uncut debut, Today, which highlighted the group's distinct, evolving legal roughness Wareham's eerie, plaintive tenor, ovoid songs, and decelerate motion guitar textures against Yang's warm up, unstable freshwater bass lines and Krukowski's lean drumming.
After signing to the U.S. subdivision of Roughly Swap, Galaxie 500 issued its shaping consequence, 1989's evocative On Firing, a remarkably assured and fatness record quran including the superb singles "Blueness Thunder" and "When Will You Come Home." Subsequently a limited edition 7" spillage featuring live renditions of the Beatles' "Rainfall" and Jonathan Richman's "Don't Let Our Early days Go to Waste," the pigeonholing returned in 1990 with This Is Our Music, a fan come out of the closet compendium spotlighting the wry, homo scoop "Fourth of July" and a persistent cover of Yoko Ono's "Listen, the Snow Is Falling." Following a subsequent circuit, Galaxie five hundred disbanded after Wareham phoned Yang and Krukowski to say he was quitting the grouping.
A few months by and by, later Wareham formed his unexampled dance set, Luna, Rough Trade went insolvent, and with the label's dying went the trio's iII albums, as well as their royalties. In 1991, at an vendue nosepiece of
