1988 - USA
Slowcore, Dream Pop, Indie Pop
If many people are familiar with Galaxie 500’s masterpiece On Fire, their first album Today also deserves a lot of flowers. That’s also the name of the opening song immediately transporting you into a new place of vivid dreams and jangling guitars, the voice is here, the sound, we’re in 1988 and Dream Pop is already born and one of the most beautiful musical genre to listen to.
With titles like Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste and It’s Getting Late, Galaxie 500 are paving the way for music acts like M83, Beach House or Slowdive and Yo La Tengo, very early, building nocturnal instrumental songs that last for minutes to wrap us all in this clean and tidy mesmerizing loop of sound.
To impress us even more, the last two songs, Instrumental and Tugboat, both have an exceptional aspect. Instrumental is a song like no other for Galaxie 500, holding a very unique place in their catalogue because of its slightly upbeat mood and furious guitar riff. Drums and guitars collide to create a quiet but determined motive to fill our ears with eeriness. Then Tugboat, the perfect teenage love anxious song. « I don’t wanna stay at your party / I don’t wanna talk with your friends / I don’t wanna vote for your president / I just wanna be your tugboat captain. » These lyrics that sound like they escaped from a twee pop song have everything to delight us with this abstract love story conveying feelings of tenderness and melancholy. Two feelings that are the core of Galaxie 500’s sound, a band with a close-to-perfection career.
With titles like Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste and It’s Getting Late, Galaxie 500 are paving the way for music acts like M83, Beach House or Slowdive and Yo La Tengo, very early, building nocturnal instrumental songs that last for minutes to wrap us all in this clean and tidy mesmerizing loop of sound.
To impress us even more, the last two songs, Instrumental and Tugboat, both have an exceptional aspect. Instrumental is a song like no other for Galaxie 500, holding a very unique place in their catalogue because of its slightly upbeat mood and furious guitar riff. Drums and guitars collide to create a quiet but determined motive to fill our ears with eeriness. Then Tugboat, the perfect teenage love anxious song. « I don’t wanna stay at your party / I don’t wanna talk with your friends / I don’t wanna vote for your president / I just wanna be your tugboat captain. » These lyrics that sound like they escaped from a twee pop song have everything to delight us with this abstract love story conveying feelings of tenderness and melancholy. Two feelings that are the core of Galaxie 500’s sound, a band with a close-to-perfection career.