★★★★★
Following their split in 2005, New York based indie rock quartet Luna have released a best of album, produced by founding member, lead singer and guitarist Dean Wareham. Containing 18 space rock gems spread over 120 minutes this is a purchase well worth making if not for that alone...
- www.gigwise.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
On Luna EP, the six-song EP ofcovers (Talking Heads, Tom Rush) and newer dirges by the band(which includes former members of Galaxie 500, the Chills, andthe Feelies), Luna weave maudlin murmurings and staccato drumpatter into a thick layer of guitar fuzz. The effect iswonderfully mesmerizing ? like being draped in a warm soniccoverlet. B+
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
For a decade, New York punk has been Luna's best resource and its biggest hurdle. The Manhattan quartet's six albums draw from Television's dual-guitar hypnosis and the Velvet Underground's churning urgency, leaning on the weird and woozy insomnia of reedy vocalist Dean Wareham to supply its subtle originality...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
The great NYC guitar band of the '90s refined the big-city blare of the Velvet Underground into languorous rock noir. Harvard grad Dean Wareham got his start playing yawning dream-jams in Galaxie 500, but in Luna he strummed more resolutely and pronounced his consonants, becoming an articulate chronicler of doomed love among the Lower East Side's shy and overeducated...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Luna just keep on murmuring, their gliding guitars and hypnotic rhythms insistently reminding you they're more than just the phoenix that rose from Galaxie 500's ashes. Their own identity long established, it's a pity then that this isn't as precious as Romantica or the divine The Days Of Our Nights. Sean Eden's songs and voice aren't as fine as Wareham's, and it moseys a little too languidly...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
★★★★★
The best live album ever, of course, is Deep Purple's 'Made In Japan'. Everything a live album should be. Histrionic guitar solos! Keyboard solos! And a drum solo! Fantastic. We are unlikely to get anything quite so bombastic here with Luna though. Never ones to overstate things on studio recordings anyway, Luna are here stripped down to the bare basics - no mellotron, no strings, no keyboards even...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Formed in the wake of Galaxie 500's dissolution at the early part of the decade, Luna debuted in 1992 with Lunapark, an album of low-key tunes that didn't stray far from the Galaxie formula. Owing to Dean Wareham's quizzical lyrics and reserved voice and his band's slow, dreamy melodies, comparisons to the Velvet Underground were inescapable but far from problematic...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
On Pup Tent, Dean Wareham and his Luna bandmates leave behind the dark pop and fragile jamming of their disappointing previous album, Penthouse, in favor of a more abstract sound more in line with Wareham's past work in Galaxie 500. This includes incorporating a variety of new instruments and some surprising influences, such as the early '90s British pop of bands like the Charlatans (see the gorgeous "Beautiful View")...
- www.nudeasthenews.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
With seven songs and at just under 30 minutes, Close Cover Before Striking helps re-kindle the lost art of making short yet thoroughly satisfying albums. Nothing about the five originals and two covers here makes them come across like B-sides or throwaways. The disc feels like a complete statement without any wasted moments, and there really isn't anything more that you can ask for. It has a breezy, off-the-cuff, feeling, and the band has nothing to prove to anyone...
- www.adequacy.net
2009-07-21
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