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On Fire

Galaxie 500 · 1989

• Scores: Noise 1, Unease 1, Complexity 1 (each 1 to 5)
• Genre: Rock, Dream Pop, Slowcore
• Mood: hazy, tender, drifting
• Sound: droning guitar, slow tempos, hushed vocals, reverb, saxophone

Galaxie 500 recorded this in 1989 at Noise New York, produced and engineered by Mark Kramer, who also played cheap organ on Isn't It a Pity, a cover of the George Harrison song. The music is droning and doleful, in a slowcore, dream pop and psychedelic style, with Dean Wareham's guitar and vocals, Naomi Yang's bass and Damon Krukowski's drums. Ralph Carney plays tenor saxophone on Decomposing Trees. Blue Thunder was released as a single in February 1990.

Track list

1. Blue Thunder (3:45)
2. Tell Me (3:50)
3. Snowstorm (5:10)
4. Strange (3:16)
5. When Will You Come Home (5:21)
6. Decomposing Trees (4:05)
7. Another Day (3:41)
8. Leave the Planet (2:40)
9. Plastic Bird (3:15)
10. Isn't It a Pity (5:10)