Das Damen - Noon Daylight

What this video is

Released in 1989 on Twin/Tone Records — the Minneapolis label also home to The Replacements and Hüsker Dü — 'Noon Daylight' captures Das Damen at a transitional moment: newly signed after a contentious departure from SST Records, and recording with a reconstituted lineup. The track and its video sit at the intersection of the New York noise-punk underground and the broader American college radio ecosystem,…

Why it matters

An exemplar of late-80s American noise-rock's psychedelic wing, 'Noon Daylight' bridges the SST Records ethos of bands like Dinosaur Jr. with the melodic sensibility of Twin/Tone's Minneapolis roster. It documents a key transitional moment in underground rock before grunge's commercial…