Rendezvous

Luna - Rendezvous

Rendezvous
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Artist: Luna
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-01-24
Music Label: Jet Set Records
Soundtracks:
  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

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Free Music Review: Luna's last is Luna's best yet
Hit: 5 Stars

The conventional wisdom on Luna is that their artistic peak was around "Penthouse" or "Bewitched", and that their other releases are a mixed bag not as worth pursuing. As a true, unabashed Luna fanatic, I feel this is hogwash. As much as I love those two releases, much of Dean Wareham's best and underappreciated work is contained on such less heralded releases as the experimental "Pup Tent", the vastly underrated "Days of Our Nights" (a personal fave) and the lush, unashamedly romantic (by Luna standards mind you) "Romantica". See, my contention is that, from "Lunapark" onward, they have only gotten better with each successive release. A rarity in bands nowadays to be sure.

Having said that, this their final swansong (so they say) is as sublime as prime Luna gets, and is quite possibly their most consistently brilliant disc to date. As criminally under appreciated as they have been all their career, even mainstream critics have had to cop to the sheer blissful beauty that is "Rendezvous". Favoring a stripped-down back to basics approach, it's everything Luna should be: mysterious, witty, sexy, poignant, deep, celestial and delicious. Like Luna's best work, it's as comfortable as a chat with an old friend, yet so fresh and nuanced that it gets better with repeated listenings. Wareham's poetically absurd yet touching lyrics are the key as usual. His secret is never coming off as too snide or pleased with himself, or just plain sarcastic as many in this genre can. He's an artsy fartsy New York hipster who's never too cool bear his sensitive, tender heart. Just when you think he's over reached with a cheesy line (the one about the piggy wiggy with a ring in its nose in "The Owl and the Pussycat") he draws you back with a simple, down to earth observation or detail (like the line in "Rainbow Babe" about drinking Akvavit in plastic cups f'rinstance). Luna may be calling it a day, but I will always have their recorded output to carry me into that witty, urban, romantic dreamscape that is the stuff of their greatest tunes. For now, I will relax, a glass of Maker's Mark in hand, the one I love in my arms, while "Cindy Tastes of Barbecue" plays on the stereo. Luna is made for moments like this. They will be sorely missed.
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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. But while "Star Spangled Man" is a great song whose lyrics are composed at least partly of stolen song titles ("tell me something good," "unknown pleasures")--is it great because of or in spite of the horrible, horrible pun "Chairman Mouse"? We shall leave it to grad students of the future to decide. --Mike McGonigal

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