Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hnsker Dn were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde, Sonic Youth redefined what noise meant with...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. The first in a series of instrumental Sonic Youth releases. Sports a red-houndstooth-French-language theme on the sleeve and contains three instrumentals. Incredibly different and incredibly soothing.
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Sonic Youth's 1997 non-Geffen releases, Part I: four new songs. CD in a gatefold cardboard jacket. Same tracks on both formats. The inaugural 12 inch EP/CD sports a red houndstooth French language theme on the sleeve and contains 4 instrumentals.
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Sonic Youth's 1997 non-Geffen releases, Part I: four new songs. CD in a gatefold cardboard jacket. Same tracks on both formats. The inaugural 12 inch EP/CD sports a red houndstooth French language theme on the sleeve and contains 4 instrumentals.
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An album quite unlike any other in the colorful Sonic Youth canon, Bad Moon Rising captures the New York band in 1985 during its most morose phase, one that is quite forbidding yet fascinating all the same. The proper album is an eight-song tapestry of droning guitar feedback, distant clattering percussion, and dreamy vocal mumblings, all of it woven together by sullen interludes of ambient noise. With the exception of the closing "Death Valley '69," nothing really stands out per se. Each song s [ read more ]
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Abrasive and archaic, theatrical and confrontational, Confusion Is Sex marks the opening strides that Sonic Youth made during their long slog through the American underground scene of the '80s. And yes, this album is underground if anything; it's lo-fi to the point of tonal drabness, as the instruments seem to ring out in only one tone, that of screechy noise. Yet that tone in itself is part of the album's style, which is one of antithesis. The album isn't comprised of songs but rather soundscapes, [ read more ]
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