New Sonic Youth Album

[alfke@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (J. Peter Alfke)]

Well, there must be a new Sonic Youth album, 'cause Melody Maker just
reviewed it.  It's called "Sister".  Excerpts from the review:

"Mostly the pleasure in Sonic Youth is a kind of entranced suspension;
 what they're making now is *pop gone wrong*.  They've taken the Byrds
 and Jefferson Airplane and forged a kind of industrial raga rock,
 taken the butterflies in the heart of janglepop and attached rusty
 razor blades to their wings."

"Sonic Youth harass, extort their guitars, make them squeal like
 neglected kettles, or swarm like locusts blotting out the sky.  They
 relocate the classic shapes of rock'n'roll (glissandos of slide
 guitar, a fog of wah-wah) into an ultramodern context.  In the
 absence of melody, what you listen to is the structure, the almost
 gymnastic movement in time and space of blocks of noise, the
 alteration of different densitites, forces, torques."

"The lyrical concerns are as laughably morbid as ever, but Sonic Youth
 have located a strange new rapture somewhere in between the shiver
 and the shudder.  They will get under your skin."

[Let it be known that I disagree strongly with that jab at the
lyrics.]

Sounds good to me.  Out Friday in the US, according to a guy at Rhino.
On SST of course.  This is a DEFINITE buy-or-die scene, folks.

Keep Rockin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"If you laid all of Bon Jovi's tallywackers end to end, they'd be only
 two inches long!  And that's including the roadies!"  --Mojo Nixon
 '86

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