On November 15 20/20/20 Records will release the final piece of the official Galaxie 500 catalog, Peel Sessions. The sessions were recorded on two separate visits to the legendary BBC radio show, on September 24, 1989 and October 30, 1990. These recordings, while often bootlegged and traded, have never been officially available until now. They have been digitally re-mastered by Alan Douches, who also re-mastered the Galaxie 500 Box Set.

The two sessions feature a selection of the band’s favorite originals along with some unexpected cover songs. Galaxie tracks “Flowers,” “Blue Thunder,” “Decomposing Trees” and “When Will You Come Home” are here, plus Buffy St. Marie’s “Moonshot,” “Final Day” by Young Marble Giants, Jonathan Richman’s “Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste” and a rare and unexpected version of the Sex Pistols’ “Submission.”

"I remembered the covers, especially the Sex Pistols song and the Young Marble Giants one, cause they were so much fun to record,” said Galaxie drummer Damon Krukowski. “I didn't recall anything about what else we'd done. Turns out we'd chosen a mini-comp of all our favorite songs to play live — the takes are different than the albums, changed by all the touring we'd done by that point, but very different from live tapes too because we had access to overdubs — two guitars, percussion on top of the drums, even some electronic blips and bleeps on the Buffy St. Marie track.”

Peel Sessions features a cover illustration of the band by Lara Tomlin. Tomlin is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Time, Forbes and more. It is produced by the BBC.

The trio of Dean Wareham, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang met in high school in New York City in the early1980s. They formed Galaxie 500 together in Cambridge, MA several years later, in 1987. Together they recorded three studio albums (1988’s Today, 1989’s On Fire and 1990’s This Is Our Music). They met with much acclaim and moderate commercial success worldwide in their short time together, but disbanded in 1991. Wareham went on to form Luna and Damon & Naomi began recording together as a duo. In 2004, Damon & Naomi launched their label, 20/20/20 whose first release was Damon & Naomi’s latest studio effort, 2005’s The Earth Is Blue.

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