Galaxie 500 - Ceremony (live)

In my never-ending quest to embarass myself and my friends musically, I've always sought to find some new music (or stuff I like) to ape. As some of you guys might know, me and some of the boys formed a nonsensical shoegazing band called Galactica a few months.

We wrote and recorded a few tunes on the spot for the fun of it, releasing the (intentionally, we hope people could tell) badly recorded and mixed EP Galactica Lives!.

Barring that there will be time (and money), we will like to carry on with this nonsense and do a follow-up EP. However, being the "consummate" artists we are, I believe we should keep evolving... Ahem, yeah, so instead of doing more early 90's British shoegazing rock, we will mine the late 90's American slow-core movement.

I love Low who I mentioned to Bryan. He digs the mp3s I've sent over. Interestingly, he reminded me of an old 80's (now defunct) American act Galaxie 500 which he said are pretty much the pioneers of the whole slow-core genre. Atmospheric and very sluggish in nature.

He's right.

So I'm revisiting all my Galaxie 500 CDs right now. That's the Bostonian band covering Joy Division's 'Ceremony'. Interesting trivia: They were actually friends with talkshow host Conan O'Brien when they were all undergrads in Harvard. I love Wikipedia.