Rendezvous was released in October, 2004 on Jetset Records. Now reissued on InkSplosion color by Wax Mage Productions.
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After extensive touring for Romantica, Luna (Dean Wareham, Sean Eden, Lee Wall and Britta Phillips) commenced writing and rehearsing new songs in a rehearsal room on east 23rd Street in Manhattan. Rendezvous was recorded at Trout Recording in Brooklyn with Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Phish) producing. The album was recorded live in one big room, with minimal overdubs apart from vocals and guitar solos, and it captures the sound of the band playing live. For the first time ever, guitarist Sean Eden sang a couple of songs that he had written: "Broken Chair" and "Still at Home." Other highlights include "Malibu Love Nest" and "Cindy Tastes of Barbecue."
The album was released in October, 2004 on Jetset Records, and the band announced that they would be breaking up after one final tour. As things turned out, this break-up amounted to a 10-year hiatus, as Luna are now back playing shows. But Rendezvous is their final studio album of original material.
Luna's allegedly last studio album is astonishing, their best since 1995's Penthouse. The band has arrived at a pleasant, Television-on-xanax variant of indie-rock that's so smart, sexy, and sophisticated, it threatens to melt right into the background. As befits a group thinking of (their own) empire, Luna revisits one of their best songs, "Astronaut." Like the rest of the album, here it's leaner, stronger, and slower, while "Malibu" and "Owl" display some of the finest, melodic and stripped-down guitar playing since the Feelies' heyday. Much of what helps raise Luna from pretty sonic wallpaper are Wareham's lyrics. Delivered in a stylish deadpan, Wareham's words seem to owe much to New York School poets like John Ashbery, Joe Brainard, and, of course Lou Reed. --Mike McGonigal
Track Listing
Malibu Love Nest Cindy Tastes of Barbecue Speedbumps The Owl & the Pussycat Astronaut Rainbow Babe Broken Chair Star-Spangled Man Motel Bambi Still at Home Buffalo Boots
- 1. Malibu Love Nest
- 2. Cindy Tastes Of Barbecue
- 3. Speedbumps
- 4. The Owl & The Pussycat
- 5. Astronaut
- 6. Broken Chair
- 7. Star-Spangled Man
- 8. Motel Bambi
- 9. Still At Home
- 10. Buffalo Boots
- 11. Rainbow Babe
- 12. Eyes In My Smoke (bonus track)
- 13. Speedbumps (Lee Wall re-mix)
- 14. Still at Home (Unique demo)
- 15. Rainbow Babe (Unique demo)
- 16. Malibu Love Nest (Unique demo)
