This Is Our Music

THIS IS OUR MUSIC is available along with Galaxie 500's two other full-length albums on the 4-CD box set GALAXIE 500 (Rykodisc 10355).
Galaxie 500: Dean Wareham (vocals, guitar); Naomi Yang (vocals, bass); Damon Krukowski (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Kramer (flute, background vocals).
Recorded at Noise New York, New York, New York in 1990. Includes liner notes by Byron Coley.
Originally released on Rough Trade.
On THIS IS OUR MUSIC, Galaxie 500's third and final album, the band continue their deliberately paced, three-chord, Velvet Underground-influenced pop project. Though there's little here to distinguish the album from the group's previous efforts (save perhaps their strikingly straight-faced cover of Yoko Ono's "Listen, The Snow Is Falling"--a remarkable feat in itself), THIS IS OUR MUSIC delivers spare, introspective tunes characterized by ghostly moods, 4/4 guitar strums and Dean Wareham's charmingly unaffected, drowsy vocals.
Surreal lyrics and simple, haunting guitar lines make songs like "Hearing Voices" and "Spook," both lovely and oddly poignant. Shortly after the release of this album, Wareham left Galaxie 500 to mine a similar musical vein with his band Luna.