With their first new music since 2004’s Rendezvous, the master Lou Reed disciples in Luna return to one of their strengths: covers. A Sentimental Education finds the quartet—Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips, Sean Eden and Lee Wall—tackling mostly obscurities by the likes of Yes, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Mercury Rev and Fleetwood Mac. Simultaneously released companion piece A Place Of Greater Safety EP is all-original, however, though the six songs are instrumentals. Luna will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
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Wareham: Some songs are so groundbreaking, they seem to come from nowhere and predict the future. Such a track was New Order’s “Blue Monday,” produced by Arthur Baker. But while on tour with Teenage Fanclub early this year, Norman Blake played me this Donna Summer/Giorgio Moroder production—which seems to have inspired “Blue Monday” (the famous kick-drum pattern) and “Temptation” both. I just finished reading Bernard Albrecht’s memoir, and he is pretty candid about the influence the song had on the band.
