Luna Astronaut 1995 (Video) Hot on the heels of Romantica and their sold-out national tour, Luna has let loose with a special mini-album. Featuring 7 tracks plus 2 exclusive videos, 'Lovedust' and '1995'. Digipak. Jetset Records. 2002.
Album Description Hot on the heels of Romantica and their sold-out national tour, Luna has let loose with a special mini-album. Featuring 7 tracks plus 2 exclusive videos, 'Lovedust' and '1995'. Digipak. Jetset Records. 2002. Similarly Requested CDs (4 out of 5 stars) "The EP "Close Cover Before Striking" is Luna's best recorded work in quite a number of years. The band's last few studio releases have seemed at times to suffer from apparent fatigue, but this time out they've come up with a batch of winners augmented by a killer cover of The Rolling Stones's "Waiting on a Friend." And if Dean Wareham will never be mistaken for Mick Jagger as a singer, well, with Luna the vocals hardly the point. The warm, lush Velvet Underground-like arrangement makes the song sound like a Luna original.Perhaps inspired by this performance, Wareham and company sound fully engaged for the rest of the album. It's hard to pick favorites because the best Luna material is all about establishing an album's length mood, but other standout cuts include "Teenage Lightning," the instrumental "Drunken Whistler" (and some of the band's best ever guitar work) and "Neon Lights." Unlike other recent Luna works, however, it is a pleasure to report that there's not a clunker in the mix. In this the EP's breveity could also be considered its strongest virtue.Overall, an excellent surprise EP release from a durable alternative rock band."