Luna to release LP box set, Luna: Long Players (92-99), to help soundtrack your next beautiful drug coma

Luna to release LP box set, Luna: Long Players (92-99), to help soundtrack your next beautiful drug coma

Last year, following one of those “lengthy hiatus” type things that bands do, Dean Wareham’s badass post-Galaxy 500 project Luna announced that they were reuniting for a batch of reunion shows in Europe. Maybe it was all the readily accessible Absinthe that they have over there, but apparently, things didn’t go too shabbily, because Wareham and his buds are continuing the reunion tour this summer and fall in North America and have also announced a new box set that will compile each of their five 9’s albums, plus a new “rarities” record containing various B-sides, demos, etc.

In keeping with the band’s easy-breezy, shambly, space-gazing vibe, the new box is titled Luna: Long Players (92-99), and it’s coming out via Captured Tracks… eh, sometime in the late fall or winter. Sounds about right!

In addition to putting all that pleasantly yawn-y, dreamy music on wax for the first time, the new set will also feature a 12x12 book containing interviews with Dean Wareham conducted by film director Noah Baumbach (Wareham did the music for Baumbach’s 2005 film The Squid and the Whale and did some less musical actor-stuff in 2013’s Frances Ha). Although, it’s probably unwise to attempt reading (or pretty much ANY other task that requires concentration on ANY level) while listening to Luna. You’re pretty much guaran-damn-teed to be simultaneously sleeping and engaging in sexual intercourse with someone or something within meremoments of dropping that needle.

Luna: Long Players (92-99):

Lunapark (1992)
Bewitched (1994)
Penthouse (1995)
Pup Tent (1997)
The Days of Our Nights (1999)

Rarities tracklisting:

01. Egg Nog (from Time 7”, 1992)
02. Indian Summer (Beat Happening cover from Slide EP, 1993)
03. Ride Into the Sun (The Velvet Underground cover from Slide EP, 1993)
04. That’s What You Always Say (The Dream Syndicate cover from Slide EP, 1993)
05. Anesthesia (pre-Elektra Records demo, 1991)
06. In the Flesh (Blondie cover from In the Flesh 7”, 1997)
07. Bonnie and Clyde (Serge Gainsbourg cover, Penthouse bonus track)
08. I Know You Tried (unreleased demo from Bewitched sessions)
09. Roll in the Sand (from Outdoor Miner 7”, 1996)
10. Dear Paulina (from Dear Paulina 7”, 1999)

Luna tour dates:

06.11.15 - Brooklyn, NY - McCarren Park
07.30.15 - Brighton, England - The Old Market
07.31.15 - London, England - The Garage
08.01.15 - Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club
08.02.15 - Glasgow, Scotland - CCA
08.03.15 - Manchester, England - Gorilla
08.05.15 - Tel Aviv, Israel - Club Barby
10.03.15 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West
10.05.15 - Philadelphia, PA - Trocadero
10.06.15 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
10.07.15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
10.08.15 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom
10.09.15 - Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
10.10.15 - Boston, MA - Paradise
10.11.15 - Portsmouth, NH - 3S Artspace
10.13.15 - Toronto, Ontario - Danforth Hall
10.14.15 - Pittsburgh, PA - The Andy Warhol Museum
10.15.15 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew’s Hall
10.16.15 - Chicago, IL - House of Blues
10.17.15 - Minneapolis, MN - The Cedar
10.23.15 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
10.24.15 - Los Angeles, CA - Teragram Ballroom

• Luna: https://www.facebook.com/Luna.Official.Bandpage
• Captured Tracks: http://www.capturedtracks.com

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