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Galaxie 500 Dig Unreleased Songs Out of Their Archives for New Collection

Beloved dream-pop trio Galaxie 500 have announced a new collection featuring unheard recordings from the band’s heyday.

“I can see why we left some of these songs in the vaults, but there is pleasure in hearing them today; they sound very alive, like Galaxie 500 playing in the brick-walled room that was Noise New York,” singer and guitarist Dean Wareham added in a statement. The 24-track collection — presented chronologically from sessions spanning February 1988 to June 1990 — also boasts unreleased songs like “Cactus,” “Moonshot,” “Never Get to Heaven,” “See Through Glasses,” and “I Will Walk,” as well as the band’s now-hard-to-find B-sides, CD bonus tracks, EP cuts and fanzine 7″ singles from the era, some of which previously appeared on the Uncollected disc from the Galaxie 500 box set released back in 1996, just five years after the band’s 1991 breakup. “Listening to these early recordings I can hear myself figuring out how I wanted to play bass – finding my way up the neck to where the notes would cut through, where there could be a counter-melody to the singing.

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