Damon and Naomi, who you might also know as 2/3rds of Galaxie 500, have announced a new album, A Sky Record, which will be out August 6, 2021. For it, they've once again collaborated with guitarist Michio Kurihara. “It’s like this golden net,” Naomi says of Kurihara's style.
The album was partly inspired by BBC Radio's nightly "The Shipping Forecast" which they listened to throughout the pandemic. Says Damon, "The Shipping Forecast is simply the weather forecast for the sea around the UK. But it’s also a mesmerizing list of place names ('Viking' and 'Tiree' are examples) and slightly coded information about wind direction, etc - it has its own language. But for some reason, Naomi and I found ourselves listening to it almost every night during lockdown… It comes on just as we’re usually cooking dinner, which is how we stumbled on it… and then this marker became important to us, even though (or because?) it’s a report about conditions for places we couldn’t possibly visit."