With their first new music since 2004’s Rendezvous, the master Lou Reed disciples in Luna return to one of their strengths: covers. A Sentimental Education finds the quartet—Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips, Sean Eden and Lee Wall—tackling mostly obscurities by the likes of Yes, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Mercury Rev and Fleetwood Mac. Simultaneously released companion piece A Place Of Greater Safety EP is all-original, however, though the six songs are instrumentals. Luna will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
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Phillips: This is so inspiring. It makes me want to start working on my next solo album right now! Its thrilling to hear artists I admire talk about challenges that are familiar to me. There’s always something mysterious about creating songs, which can be daunting, but listening to this podcast makes it feel more exciting and fun. I read the book Songwriters On Songwriting years ago, and it’s great, but it focuses more on traditional songwriting and lyrics (plus it’s a million pages long), whereas Song Exploder episodes are around 15 minutes long and get into the music/recording process more. My favorite episodes are Angel Olsen and Julia Holter (talking about being influenced by Bowie, Eno and Bryan Ferry!) and especially, Unknown Mortal Orchestra “exploding” their amazing song/track “Multi-Love.”
