Galaxie 500 - On FireOn Fire is widely recognized as the canonic pinnacle of Galaxie 500's career. The artwork conveys this, with a low angle shot of the band, looking up towards an amber sky. This record marked the realization of their signature sound. Nowhere is it clearer than on the album opener, Blue Thunder, the closest a song can come to waves crashing on a beach in songform. Lyrically inconsequential, with a chorus composed entirely of la's, the tracks power lies

industrial effects alongside straightforward instrumentation

complete with 12 tracks in all

and in the winter months it became a place of drugs

a friend of the band

Alia Shawkat

his innovations have transformed the character of rock and electronic music while his prodigious efforts to expand the boundaries of live performance have radically altered the way people experience sound in a concert setting

Having competed in the Eurovision Song Contest and acted in a Roger Vadim film

this new pressing is a welcome return for an essential celebration of disco’s difficult cousins

James and Max started out writing the follow-up in January 2015

Organized thematically around three groups of songs

and then some rules which decide what happens to them

and felt that parts of the music foreshadowed jungle music