Jerome

Galaxie 500 lasted three years and made three albums. In that time, Damon Krukowski, Naomi Yang, and Dean Wareham created a body of work so complete it influenced virtually every slow-burning guitar band that followed — from Low to Beach House to Mazzy Star. They were doing slowcore before slowcore had a name.

Jerome, from their 1988 debut Today, is barely a song in the conventional sense — it's a mood, a temperature, a state of suspension. Wareham's guitar circles the same figure for minutes; Krukowski's drumming is ceremonial; Yang's bass sits underneath like something half-remembered.

After Galaxie 500 dissolved in 1991, Wareham formed Luna, Krukowski and Yang formed Damon & Naomi — two different beautiful futures from one beautiful ending.