Galaxie 500 ‎– Today

Genre:
Rock
Style:
Shoegazer, Indie Rock
Year:
1988


Tracklist
Flowers	
Pictures	
Parking Lot	
Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste	
Temperature's Rising	
Oblivious	
It's Getting Late	
Instrumental	
Tugboat

Hailed in Boston as a masterpiece, "Tugboat" set the stage for Galaxie 500’s first album, Today, which they recorded with Kramer (for $750) in the summer of 1988. Melody Maker called the LP "an astonishing debut by anybody’s standards," and indeed it is. The incredible, supple beauty that Galaxie spun like straw was so sweetly melancholic that it all but smothered you. Damon’s drums drift with the simmering presence of jazz classicism, Naomi’s bass is rich with dreamy emotional content, Dean’s guitar completes the aural landscapes begun by ‘69-era Sterling Morrison, and the vocals emerge from the Ouija board of eternity. A highlight of Today is the incredible primal-drone-hunch treatment the band gives to Jonathan Richman’s "Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste." The three extra tracks from this session, included on the box set, would have made Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore fiercer in his declaration of Today as "my favorite guitar record of 1988."