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 Tracklist: quote:1) Heavenmetal First single: Burroughs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qmIvFuF8r4 Since Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon, founding members of Sonic Youth, split up in 2011, Thurston has released a few solo albums, but now he's in a new band: Chelsea Light Moving. Their first album will officially be released on Tuesday (3/5), but you can listen to the whole thing streaming on NPR's site now: http://www.npr.org/2013/02/17/17209...ea-light-moving I'm almost to the end of my first listen through it now, and I've gotta say, I love it. It feels like new material from the Sonic Youth of the late 80s/early 90s, the era of their music that made me fall in love with them. It's very noisy and experimental. Kim Gordon seems like she should be present on vocals with this stuff sounding the way it does, so she is missed a bit, but honestly the quality of this stuff doesn't suffer at all without her. And there are also some touches of Sonic Youth's more recent material to be heard here. I like the albums Sonic Youth has put out in the past decade or so, with Rather Ripped being the best out of all of them. But they aren't classics for me like EVOL, Sister, Daydream Nation and others around that era are. For the most part, this feels like Thurston wanted to re-visit that sound in the modern day, and I'm so glad he decided to. Have any of you guys heard it? What do you think?
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Glad there's still music to come from sonic youth.. members at least. It was never my assumption that they broke up, but I guess it seems likely that that's what happened. I STILL can't stop wondering what caused the split. Also, you liked Rather Ripped? I hated that album. This one is pretty enjoyable, I must say.
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juniperjones posted:Also, you liked Rather Ripped? I hated that album. Yeah. It wasn't my favorite SY album or anything (though it does have a couple of my favorite SY songs on it), it was just more memorable for me than The Eternal or Sonic Nurse or Murray Street were. Those are all good albums, just not as good as Rather Ripped in my mind.
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juniperjones posted:Glad there's still music to come from sonic youth.. members at least. It was never my assumption that they broke up, but I guess it seems likely that that's what happened. I STILL can't stop wondering what caused the split. Also, you liked Rather Ripped? I hated that album. Strike that from your list of concerns because Thurston and Kim broke up. It makes sense that they would not want to be in a band together anymore.
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Does this album deviate from the "play slightly poppy noisy rock, slowly break down, follow with loud shrieky extended jam portion, speed up and close with original noisy rock" formula? Because trust me, I love Sonic Youth and their experiments, but their last couple albums just sounded stuck in that exact pattern. It stops being an interesting experiment when you expect it.
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wrong thred
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Just listened to the stream on the npr website and i love it. More along the lines of psychic hearts than any recent SY material. Can't wait to see them when they come to Austin in a couple of weeks.
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Slaapaav posted:wrong thred By Sonic Youth I mean Thurston Moore in general sorry v  v
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Happy Hippo posted:Strike that from your list of concerns because Thurston and Kim broke up. It makes sense that they would not want to be in a band together anymore. That's what I was referring to, though. Sonic Youth is officially "not broken up" but it's pretty clear that since Thurston and Kim split, they're not going to be making music together. I just wonder why, after all these years, they split up.
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juniperjones posted:That's what I was referring to, though. Sonic Youth is officially "not broken up" but it's pretty clear that since Thurston and Kim split, they're not going to be making music together. I just wonder why, after all these years, they split up. Well, sometimes mommies and daddies decide that they don't love each other any more and decide to break up. It doesn't mean they love you any less. On-topic, this album is phenomenal and I am curious about hearing Thurston's work in Twilight, since they mentioned he joined that band some time back.
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juniperjones posted:That's what I was referring to, though. Sonic Youth is officially "not broken up" but it's pretty clear that since Thurston and Kim split, they're not going to be making music together. I just wonder why, after all these years, they split up. Says who? Tell that to Fleetwood Mac and Blue Mountain.
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Happy Hippo posted:Says who? Tell that to Fleetwood Mac and Blue Mountain. Or Mazzy Star.
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JnnyThndrs posted:Or Mazzy Star. Anthony Kiedis wasn't in Mazzy Star, though.  On topic, this is a pretty good record, but for me it's nowhere nears Thurston's Trees Outside the Academy from a couple years ago. That thing is unassailable. The last proper SY album I thought was anything more than "alright" was NYC Ghosts and Flowers.
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Holy poo poo, you guys, Murray Street and Sonic Nurse own every bone. Sonic Youth with Jim O'Rourke 4lyfe
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Happy Hippo posted:Holy poo poo, you guys, Murray Street and Sonic Nurse own every bone. Sonic Youth with Jim O'Rourke 4lyfe Murray Street is alright. Sonic Nurse felt far too much like trying to make a sequel to Goo (I mean come on, "Pattern Recognition", though props to them for continuing their obsession with William Gibson (cf. "The Sprawl"). Their best work with O'Rourke was on the SYR records.
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I'm not a huge Sonic Youth fan (Despite having almost all their stuff, but hell I have every Muse album and God knows I'm not a fan) but I love Murray Street and think it's probably one of their best albums. So I find it weird people think it's just "alright". I think the SYR stuff is pretty much all bad though, so tells you how good my taste is. syntaxfunction fucked around with this message at Mar 17, 2013 around 13:40 |
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syntaxfunction posted:I'm not a huge Sonic Youth fan (Despite having almost all their stuff, but hell I have every Muse album and God knows I'm not a fan) but I love Murray Street and think it's probably one of their best albums. So I find it weird people think it's just "alright". Most if not all their albums are polarizing - Pitchfork gave NYC Ghosts and Flowers something like a 0.6, and I think it's one of their best. A lot of people and reviews say that Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star is terrible, but it's far and away the album of theirs I've listened to the most, rivaled only by Goo and Sister. I can't comprehend what people don't like about it; it's messy, yeah, but it's also just so front-to-back listenable. "Winner's Blues" is one of the best opening tracks ever, "Bull in the Heather" is how you do a SY pop song properly (not the stuff off Rather Ripped), the whole thing in general just has this great old-school lo-fi aesthetic. And it was then pilloried by the same people who said Dirty was a sellout, slick album (gently caress that, Dirty loving rules).
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Happy Hippo posted:Says who? Tell that to Fleetwood Mac and Blue Mountain. Because it's been like two years and they're on a freight train toward 80. Kim can barely sing or play bass anymore from what I've heard. I didn't immediately write them off. I figured they'd put it aside and keep playing, but if they don't I'm not unhappy. I really enjoyed The Eternal. Malibu Gas Station is one of my all time favorite SY songs.
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juniperjones posted:Kim can barely sing or play bass anymore from what I've heard. And whats new about this? 
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