The former rhythm section of Galaxie 500 has been recording their music, which lies somewhere between folk and dream pop, as a duo since 1991 and only last year released their seventh album, »False Beats & True Hearts«. Drag City is now releasing a reissue of their 2000s longplayer, which Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang recorded together with the Japanese acid folk band Ghost. After earlier collaborations with, e.g. Kate Biggar and Wayne Rogers of Crystalized Movements (together as Magic Hour), this collaboration is probably the most artistically stimulating.
The melodies are soaring, the instrumentation is always refreshing and helpfully subordinate to the respective song. The hypnotic, gentle orphans intensify through ever new musical layers – until in ‘Tanka’ the guitarist Michio Kurihara, who is present throughout, is even granted a four-minute solo. The cover »Eulogy to Lenny Bruce«, which follows and concludes the album, rounds it off wonderfully gently. It’s hard to believe that these songs are already 12 years old! But at the same time it becomes all the more clear that dream-pop was coined long before Beach House and The xx. Damon & Naomi are the true role models for dreamy pop fans.
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