Galaxie 500 - This Is Our Music

On This Is Our Music, Galaxie 500's third and final album, the band continue their deliberately paced, three-chord, Velvet Underground-influenced pop project. Though there's little here to distinguish the album from the group's previous efforts (save perhaps their strikingly straight-faced cover of Yoko Ono's "Listen, The Snow Is Falling" - a remarkable feat in itself), This Is Our Music delivers spare, introspective tunes characterized by ghostly moods, 4/4 guitar strums and Dean Wareham's charmingly unaffected, drowsy vocals. Surreal lyrics and simple, haunting guitar lines make songs like "Hearing Voices" and "Spook," both lovely and oddly poignant.