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DEAN & BRITTA - Back Numbers
| Popmatters | | No stranger to bowing out, Dean Wareham has already broken up two of the most modestly iconic bands in indie rock. While Galaxie 500 imploded into indelibility, Luna outlasted nearly every other darling of the 1990s until finally calling it quits in 2005. With that band now well behind him, Wareham is set to debut the next phase of his career....full text |
| | Entertainment Weekly | | Dean (Wareham) & Britta (Phillips) emerge from the rumpled bed that was Luna, the critically adored New York City group that disbanded in 2005. The crooning couple stick to what they know best on the dreamy Back Numbers, a mix of breathy covers (the Troggs, Lee Hazlewood) and intimate originals spiked with Wareham's laconic talk-singing and smoothed out by Phillips' icy purr. With lullabies like the moody, Moog-y duet ''Words You Used to Say,'' who needs sleeping pills? B...full text |
| | Jam! | The Dean is Wareham. The Britta is Phillips. If those names mean anything, you are likely a Luna fan. And if you are, you will surely appreciate this second solo set from the late, great dream-poppers' frontman and bassist.
The gorgeous Back Numbers -- produced, like the duo's first outing L'Avventura, by the legendary Tony Visconti -- mines the same vein of lush, woozy decadence that Luna worked for a decade, with equally seductive (if slightly sweeter) results....full text |
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