Review - Luna “The Days of
Our Nights”
album on Beggars
Banquet/Cortex through Shock!
Following on the heels of 1997’s
disappointing “Pup Tent”,
Luna
present to us their 5th album “The
Days of Our Nights” on Beggars
Banquet/Cortex through Shock!
Despite the ill-feeling toward that record I was pleased to receive this
release from Dean, Sean, Justin & Lee
and this time have had no introduction by way of a single or EP.
“The Days of
Our Nights”
follows in many ways in the path of “Pup Tent”
with its deep, moody, almost dark, quasi-Brit pop styles. The sounds of The
Church, Stone
Roses, Kula
Shaker, Chris (Pet
Shop Boys) Lowe permeate this collection; the
single Superfreaky Memories and its
instrumentation and effects being very representative of the rest of the
record.
The accompanying press hints at drug-induced
sessions, tough love, swirling and swelling guitars and stuff that could only
be borne of “alternative” lifestyles. And yes - the closing track Sweet Child o’Mine is a cover of
the W.Axl
Rose &
Co cock-rock hit, but with all the wank and bullshit removed in favour of
the slower and more mellow Luna
approach. In these days of cover-versions being favoured by radio the world
over, this one will be a winner, although their own Seven Steps to Satan, Math
Wiz, and US Out of My Pants being
other stand-out tracks.
Luna
“The Days of Our Nights” on Beggars Banquet/Cortex through
Shock! - chill out to it, get out of it
to it, at least a couple of times! ««««