Luna
Romantica

THE REVIEW

Strange title. Dean Wareham, one of my all-time heroes, such a hero that when I saw him perform live here a year ago, in a small venue in front of 50 people, I didn’t even find the courage to talk to him, while he went to the bar to get paid for the evening. I was embarrassed to be the one who requested they play the cover of "Ceremony" by Joy Division. You should never talk to your heroes, they say. It must have been seen on the sign of a pizzeria. the name. He was the brain behind Galaxie 500, who released only three albums, "Today," "On Fire," and "This Is Our Music" (quoting from memory, go for it!), three masterpiece albums that I listened to a million times in a row, with rhymes like "staring at the wall, waiting for your call…", only to disband, rightly at the height of their perfect arc. Subsequently, only the posthumous "Live in Copenhagen" came out, which I have, but I don't even know where it is now. Stolen? And by whom? Following that, with Luna, just to stick to the space theme (even though the Galaxie 500 was a Ford), he has already released quite a few albums, a bit like Frank Black after the Pixies and like Frank Black, he never quite reached that initial perfection again. In every album, however, unlike Frank Black, he manages to pull out the perfect pop song; on the previous "The Days Of Our Nights," it was "Superfreaky Memories," on "Pup Tent," it was "Bobby Peru" (from the character played by Willem Dafoe in Lynch's "Wild At Heart") and on Penthouse and Bewitched…hmm… I don’t remember. Here the opening song "Lovedust" is magnificent, on the first listen I couldn't listen to it to the end; after thirty seconds, incredulous, I would rewind the CD to hear those distant feedback and guitars played with the volume pedal (string effect) that grab you by the spine, only to give way to the chorus "a million, a billion, a trillion…stars" which sounds silly said like that, but said by him with that low voice, it’s perfect. The rest is more than okay, perhaps better than the previous ones, but who cares: this is a friend to whom I owe so much, and I will buy every album that comes out as long as I live, just like that. Just so. "Black Champagne" is also nice: "I wonder how things became so strained, the battle brings new life, train the disco lights on me." And "Dizzy" which seems like a paraphrase-reinterpretation with modified lyrics of "Jump" by Van Halen or at least that’s how it seems to me: Let me know. If I’m not also "surrounded by demons-it’s fantastic."