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[367] Luna - A Sentimental Education / A Place of Greater Safety (2xCD)
In 2017 the reformed Luna released an album of covers and an EP of instrumentals. For the records they were treated as two separate releases but they were packaged together for the CD and this is that release.
If you read my previous posts on the separate vinyl releases you’ll have noticed that I was a little… cool on them (I even, rather shamefully in retrospect, expressed that coolness to Dean face-to-face when he and Britta visited me at The National Archives.
You can read them on the site (the links will be at the bottom of the page) but I’ll pull out a couple of quotes just so you’re aware of my coolness.
I almost never listen to A Place of Greater Safety - it’s OK I guess but… it feels like a record full of soundtrack cues (a couple of which are), or unfinished songs - they’re fine but Luna’s discography could easily have lived without it - and the same goes for the covers album.
So… while I still think that maybe the decision to release a covers album was questionable I think the execution, and therefore the finished product, was flawless so, I guess I’ll shut up about it now.
Of course despite my whining I wasn’t really disappointed and I don’t really object to them being in Luna’s discography. Also, I did listen to the covers album a lot on release… I must have done because listening now it doesn’t feel like an album I was unfamiliar with.
The album also produced a couple of videos - the first features Rose McGowan and was (mostly) shot during a special show Luna performed at Gold Diggers in Hollywood in July 2017.
The second is a sweet video of schoolyard love shot by Matthew Buzzell… which is additionally sweet because of the Luna at school clips inlcuding schoolboy Sean wearing grown-up Sean’s T-shirt (and is that a Bewitched era red jacket on schoolboy Dean?)
The album used Pledgemusic shortly before they went under. I understand that bands and the industry were trying to find their feet in an age where people didn’t have to buy records any more but I’m not sure that crowd-funding, and bonus socks was really the way to do that. Although, it was quite nice to see the album taking shape through videos and photos.
The discs came in a lovely tri-fold package and was signed by all four members since it was part of my deluxe Pledgemusic package.
- Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/149
- Artist: Luna
- Title: A Sentimental Education / A Place of Greater Safety
- Format: 2xCD
- Bought as part of the “Deluxe bundle” for $105 (!)
- Buy ‘A Sentimental Education’ on Bandcamp
- Buy ‘A Place of Greater Safety’ on Bandcamp
Previously in my record collection: