Dean Wareham founded Galaxie 500 who made three classic albums for Rough Trade in 1988-90. His next band Luna recorded seven albums for Elektra and Beggar’s Banquet.
Britta Phillips’ first musical foray was as the singing voice of Jem (Jem & the Holograms), before she moved to the UK in 1989 with the shoegaze band Belltower. She played bass for the Ben Lee band and then joined Luna on bass in the year 2000.
Dean & Britta have recorded several albums as a duo and have scored two films for Noah Baumbach: The Squid & the Whale and Mistress America.
Sonic Boom was co-founder of the legendary English band Spacemen 3, he went on to form Spectrum and the experimental E.A.R. and has produced records by MGMT, Beach House and Panda Bear. His most recent release was a collaboration with Panda Bear, the groundbreaking Reset album (2022).
The friendship between Dean Wareham and Sonic Boom began in August of 1989 when they met backstage after the penultimate Spaceman 3 gig, at London’s Subterania club. They kept in touch, played occasional shows together, and in 2002 made their first recorded collaboration when Sonic re-mixed six Dean & Britta songs for the Sonic Souvenirs EP. They have toured together and collaborated on a number of songs since then, but A Peace of Us is their first full album as a trio.
Their combined and individual efforts have built a musical world we now associate with the classic indie greats; the comforting realm of lush guitar tones, adventurous synths, and layered vocals, holding the listener in a realm as unmistakable as their own.
