False Beats and True Hearts

The duo probably best known for being the rhythm section in Galaxie 500 issues another lush, expansive collaboration with Ghost guitarist Michio Kurihara.

After Dean Wareham left the epochal dream-pop group Galaxie 500 in 1991 to form Luna, the remainder of the band—husband-and-wife rhythm section Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang—almost immediately released its beautiful debut, More Sad Hits. Since then, Damon & Naomi has rarely disappointed. But the duo has also rarely…

After taking a few years away from the studio, Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang return with their seventh studio album, False Beats and True Hearts, and show absolutely no signs of age, wear and tear, or deterioration.

After Galaxie 500, guitarist Dean Wareham led Luna towards increasingly lower volume, channeling the Velvet Underground’s tension into lounge-tinged and...