Track Listing

1. E.T.A.
2. Little Red Record Co.
3. Information Age
4. Laika
5. This Car Climbed Mt. Washington
6. Memories
7. Astrafiammante
8. Boston's Daily Temperature
9. (Scene Change)
10. Sir Thomas and Sir Robert
11. Once More
12. This Changing World

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87300 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Import

Customer Reviews

Thoughtful artistry for all moods
This album is, in my opinion, one of the great acoustic albums in my collection. I hate to get straight to comparisons as this is trully original work, but if I had to compare it to anything it would be a cross between a male / female ensemble of pieces of work from the likes of Nick Drake, The Smiths, Radiohead, the Dandy Warhols and something else I can't quite put my finger on.

Musically you would be unable to make a complaint - all songs are immediately attractive to the ear and go great as mellow background music. Actually, it is more than acomplished enough to retain your attention in the foreground.

I find the general feel of the album highly accomplished. Make no mistake - this was not an album made to top the billboard charts. You can feel the way this instigates a positive influence on the album with the depth and maturity of the songs, thoughts and use of language and freedom of expressions seeming to offer a degree of authenticity that will not permit you to pass it off. They achieve an authentic uninhibited feel to each song and as an additional point Naomi Yang has a superb voice which really adds a level of feeling and expression to tracks.

In short, a very good album indeed - should certainly be considered by anybody with a serious music collection / interest. (Only 4 stars as I stubbornly hold onto that 5th star for the very best - something this falls short of in not producing any classic / memorable hits, although that's part of its charm!!)

low-key classic
From the ashes of much lauded, shoe-gaze-meets-Slint, late Eighties alt-rockers, Galaxie 500, begrudgingly rose unwilling folk-pop duo, Damon and Naomi. Despite insisting upon a departure from the music scene from which they'd become disillusioned, ever-faithful Galaxie 500 producer Kramer, bullied them out of hiding to record the songs he always knew they were secretly writing for themselves. When they finally agreed, it was to make a farewell album and the erstwhile rhythm section of `500 took to Kramer's home studio, laid out the bones for him and let him do the rest. The result is one of the most influential psychedelic pop records of the past two decades, garnering praise and imitation from the likes of Robert Wyatt and Neutral Milk Hotel. More Sad Hits is an album of playful yet melancholic pop tunes with a fervent focus upon pure song-writing and a dismissive attitude to the rock-posturing that so often accompanies it. Simultaneously sparse, yet densely populated with Kramer's best production work to date, it alternately plumbs the depths of human sorrow before soaring to the occasional vertiginous high. Since its first release on Kramer's own label, Shimmy Disc, it has ensured Damon and Naomi have been kept busy with six follow-up records and has been re-released by Sub Pop and now Damon and Naomi's own label 20|20|20. This is your third chance to bag this 16-year-old album and certainly the best 16-year-wait of the year.

J Capeling