Luna- Rendezvous

Label: Recordshop

Reissued 8/7/2026, Originally released 2004

Rendezvous was released in October, 2004 on Jetset Records. Now reissued in InkSplosion color by Wax Mage Productions. Exclusive InkSplosion Clear with White Explosion Variant - newly remastered reissue from Wax Mage Productions: After extensive touring for Romantica, Luna (Dean Wareham, Sean Eden, Lee Wall and Britta Phillips) commenced writing and rehearsing new songs in a rehearsal room on east 23rd Street in Manhattan. Rendezvous was recorded at Trout Recording in Brooklyn with Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Phish) producing. The album was recorded live in one big room, with minimal overdubs apart from vocals and guitar solos, and it captures the sound of the band playing live. For the first time ever, guitarist Sean Eden sang a couple of songs that he had written: "Broken Chair" and "Still at Home." Other highlights include "Malibu Love Nest" and "Cindy Tastes of Barbecue." 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. --Mike McGonigal

Track listing:

1. Malibu Love Nest
   
2. Cindy Tastes of Barbecue
   
3. Speedbumps
   
4. The Owl & the Pussycat
   
5. Astronaut
   
6. Rainbow Babe
   
7. Broken Chair
   
8. Star-Spangled Man
   
9. Motel Bambi
   
10. Still at Home
    
11. Buffalo Boots