Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang began playing music together as the rhythm section, co-songwriters, and sometime singers in Galaxie 500. Since the demise of Galaxie 500, Damon and Naomi have worked as a duo, exploring folk music, psychedelia, and collaborations with other like-minded musicians. After releasing a series of recordings with Shimmy Disc, Sub Pop, and Drag City, they established their own label 20/20/20, releasing the Damon & Naomi albums The Earth Is Blue, Within These Walls, False Beats and True Hearts, and Fortune. All their LPs and CDs are available from 20-20-20, or via high-quality download from the Damon & Naomi bandcamp page.
In addition to their work as musicians, Damon & Naomi are the publishers of Exact Change, a small press dedicated to avant-garde literature and artists’ writings. Damon is also a writer (books, blog, podcast, articles for Pitchfork, Art in America, Artforum and others), and Naomi is a visual artist (photography, video, and graphic design).
2021 album A Sky Record
with guitarist Michio Kurihara
Damon & Naomi official website
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Damon & Naomi – In the 21st Century
A free (or pay what you wish) digital-only compilation drawn from the four albums Damon & Naomi have released on 20/20/20, from 2005-2015.
Damon & Naomi – Spirit of Love
A free (or pay what you wish) digital-only compilation of B-sides, bonuses, and soundtracks.
“Grey day celebration music for meshed afternoons; eleven strums and songs to savor as you wander till spring. Did Damon & Naomi dream them? Did I? Will you?” — Andy Zax
A collection of new Damon & Naomi songs with an unabashed return to the simple structures and plaintive melodies that have characterized their music since Galaxie 500
Damon & Naomi sing ballads in a lonely mood with rich backgrounds featuring horn and string arrangements by Bhob Rainey, and the electric guitar of Michio Kurihara
Expansive and upbeat, featuring electric guitarist Michio Kurihara, and a horn section of Bhob Rainey and Greg Kelley.
Compiled by Damon & Naomi from their four albums for Sub Pop Records (1995 – 2002)
A meeting of Damon & Naomi's spare and emotional songwriting with the Japanese band Ghost's densely psychedelic arrangements; reissued by Drag City, LP comes with a bonus 7″
Released on Record Store Day 2013
This "bootleg edition" of Damon & Naomi's second album was rediscovered amid tapes salvaged from the studio of Galaxie 500 producer Kramer. It is Damon & Naomi's debut for Sub Pop as Kramer originally conceived it - different mixes, sequence, and with an otherwise unreleased track
“Like real water in a world of soda pop.” — Robert Wyatt
A year after Galaxie 500 dissolved, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang returned to Galaxie producer Kramer’s studio and recorded this album of psychedelic break-up songs.