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Recent acquisition #03: Naomi Yang - Never Be a Punching Bag for Nobody

Posted by Andy on 12 September 2023

Last week while Damon & Naomi were in the UK for their first UK tour since 2019 I caught them for a lovely afternoon show at Cafe Oto - I loitered around afterwards for a few minutes to chat with Damon while Naomi worked the merch table. Naomi Yang -...

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#068: Luna - Lunapark (CD)

Posted by Andy on 11 September 2023

Luna’s first album was released in the UK on Elektra, the only album of theirs that was, and because of that was not released on vinyl over here. Not that I’d have bought it so fully had I embraced CD by that point. Luna - Lunapark CD The sleeve has...

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#067: Ivy - Apartment Life

Posted by Andy on 7 September 2023

Apartment Life was the second LP by Ivy and was released in 1997. It features Dean Wareham playing guitar on the track Never Do That Again, and Luna’s Stanley Demeski plays on three other tracks. Ivy - Apartment Life When this album was released the Galaxie 500 Mailing List was...

Damon & Naomi live in London

Posted by Andy on 6 September 2023

The last time I’d seen Damon & Naomi was when they played a short set for the Walthamstow Rock and Roll Book Club in… a pub upstairs room in… Walthamstow in June 2019, who could know it would be over four years before they made it over again. Or indeed...

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#066: Magic Hour - Heads Down

Posted by Andy on 4 September 2023

Heads Down was the first release by Magic Hour and the single has one track split into Part 1 & Part 2 on each side of a seven inch single. It teases a song at the beginning but by the b-side is a gorgeously relentless torrent of noise. Magic Hour...

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#065: Pop Romantique: French Pop Classics

Posted by Andy on 31 August 2023

Luna’s wonderful cover of Michel Polnareff’s La Poupée qui fait non first appeared on this compilation of ‘French Pop Classics’ in 1995. Pop Romantique CD Obviously I love La Poupée… and have listened to it a lot over the years but I must admit it’s been a while since I...

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#064: The Squid and the Whale

Posted by Andy on 28 August 2023

Dean & Britta provided the soundtrack for Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale… although the album has only two of their tracks, plus Dean’s cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Hey You’. I was expecting more! The Squid and the Whale In fact the one Lou Reed track is longer than...

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#063: Luna - Dear Paulina

Posted by Andy on 24 August 2023

Luna’s Dear Paulina single was released in September 1999 and is one of the few physical achievements of A Head Full of Wishes. Luna - Dear Paulina Here are some facts - some of which are repeated from the post linked below, and some might be new: It is the...

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#062: Luna - Outdoor Miner

Posted by Andy on 21 August 2023

I find it odd that I can sometimes remember so clearly buying a record. I very distinctly remember buying the 7” of Luna’s cover of Outdoor Miner when it was released. Luna - Outdoor Miner Most of my time working at the BBC was spent either in the library in...

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