"Earth, Sun, Moon" is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1987 on Beggars Banquet.
The album was remastered in 2001, but it was not expanded. Most of the tracks that would have been included on an expanded edition were instead featured on disc 5 of their 2013 CD box set 5 Albums.
While Earth, Sun, Moon continued in a psychedelic vein, Love and Rockets also explored a folk-based indie rock sound. Though there were still remnants of a gothic rock influence, the band's style had evolved significantly from their earlier Bauhaus days.
The album featured Love and Rockets' first hit, "No New Tale to Tell," which reached number 18 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.
Following Earth, Sun, Moon, the band was actively recording, leading to their self-titled album released just over a year later. The 1988 single version of "Mirror People," a follow-up to "No New Tale to Tell," is included on the 2003 hits collection Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets. The extended "Mirror People ‘88 (Full Length Version)" is found on disc 5 of the 2013 5 Albums CD box set. The B-side of "Mirror People," titled "David Lanfair," features a fan's comical, one-sided interview with the band over a gentle instrumental track, and it is also available on 5 Albums. This box set also includes the contents of the following novelty 12" single by the band's alter ego, The Bubblemen. Live B-sides from "No New Tale to Tell," recorded on December 6, 1987, are available on 5 Albums alongside several previously unreleased songs from that concert. The cleaner remix of "Dog-End of a Day Gone By," released to promote the 1988 international reissue of Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven and featured as a B-side to the "Lazy" single, can be found as the audio track for the music video on the band's compilation DVD Sorted!. Additionally, the B-side "The Purest Blue" from the "Lazy" single, a reworked version of "Waiting For The Flood," appears on their 1989 self-titled album.
