Returning from maternity leave to record Sonic Youth’s ninth album, Kim Gordon decided to stick to guitar, which she’d been playing more often in her side project Free Kitten. Later on, Sonic Youth would bring in a fifth member to play bass, but for a while they became a band with three guitars and no bass, straying even further from conventional wisdom than usual.
Tracked at Easley Studios in Memphis, where Pavement and Guided By Voices made albums the same year,is the only Sonic Youth album recorded outside NYC or New Jersey, and has a unique feel, with taut, hypnotic grooves and frequently distorted vocals. It’s best remembered for “The Diamond Sea,” a 19-minute epic that veers from one of Thurston Moore’s sweetest melodies to a long dissolving outro jam.
thesonicyouth Well, this is just an opinion ;)
thesonicyouth That Pitchfork journalist changed his mind about NYC Ghosts later on and apologised for his 0.0 review. It's definitely not their worst LP - Dirty and Experimental Jet Set are far, far worse because they're so uniformly DULL.
thesonicyouth Does A Thousand Leaves not exist?
thesonicyouth personal top 5: 1. Bad Moon Rising 2. about half of Daydream Nation, cherry-picked 3. Goo 4. Evol 5. Hold That Tiger
thesonicyouth Sorry guys, washing mashine definitely my favorite 👍😋
thesonicyouth this list fucking sucks, Bad Moon Rising at 12? Sonic Nurse at 11?
thesonicyouth You forgot _A Thousand Leaves_.
thesonicyouth Washing machinedaydream nation.
thesonicyouth before everything else,every article that is referring to Sonic Youth,should always begin by explaining why SY are the biggest and most important band in contemporary music history