Insound Staff Pick - 2008! By refining the song-oriented breakthroughs of "Sister" and developing their fascination with noise and alternate tunings, Sonic Youth created a masterpiece of post-punk art-rock with the double album "Daydream Nation." Though the self-conscious sprawl of the album might appear self-indulgent on the surface, "Daydream Nation" is powered by a sustained vision, one that encapsulates all of the group's quirks and strengths. Alternating between tense, hypnotic instrumental passages a...   [ read more ]

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2005 had Sonic Youth revisiting awesome Japan, touring the boroughs of New York, rollicking at the first Arthurfest in L.A., and releasing the special deluxe edition of GOO. After one final gnarl out in Brazil with Flaming Lips, The Stooges and others Mr. Jim O'Rourke decided to concentrate full-time on his Japanese studies of language and film and SY was subsequently back to it's OG nucleus of Kim-Thurston-Lee-Steve. Songs were written, Jim recommended engineer TJ Doherty and J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr) recom...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. 2005 had Sonic Youth revisiting awesome Japan, touring the boroughs of New York, rollicking at the first Arthurfest in L.A., and releasing the special deluxe edition of GOO. After one final gnarl out in Brazil with Flaming Lips, The Stooges and others Mr. Jim O'Rourke decided to concentrate full-time on his Japanese studies of language and film and SY was subsequently back to it's OG nucleus of Kim-Thurston-Lee-Steve. Songs were written, Jim recommended engineer TJ Doherty and J Mascis (Dino...   [ read more ]

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