All three albums will be available on LP and CD, the CD's are coming with a second disc featuring extra material in form of Peel Sessions, Copenhagen Live album and the Uncollected Galaxie 500, a b-sides and rarities collection.
Galaxie 500's songs often seem superficially similar. They seldom stray from their trademark mid-tempo, two chord structure but all three albums are still brilliant and enjoyable and after a few listens you are completely hooked on the dreamy sound.
Dean Wareham's guitar, instead of being in the front and centre, seems forever stuck on the same monotone strum, only occasionally breaking into a piercing bit of solo, leaving more space for Dean Yang's unusually melodic and vocal bass lines. The drummer Damon Krukowski sounds like he's gently petting his drums instead of hitting them and it is often the drums that give the songs the ambient, hazy feel. All this dreaminess is pierced by shreds of melodies sung by Wareham in his idiosyncratic wailing style.
Their dreamy sound has influenced a lot of bands and it is wonderful that their catalogue is back in stores. Here are some of my favorite songs gathered from the three albums.
