SYR 8: Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth [PA] [Slipcase]

Performer: Sonic Youth
Distributor: Revolver USA Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Mats Gustafsson (saxophone); Kim Gordon (guitar, trumpet); Jim O'Rourke (guitar, keyboards); Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore (guitar); Steve Shelley (drums).

The Wire (p.59) - "Merzbow is key to the performance as a whole -- it's as if SY are merely providing the matter for him to work off, reshape, liquefy and electrify. It's quite proper that he should be the last man standing."

Drawing equally from punk rock and new-music pioneers such as John Cage and Glenn Branca (whom guitarists Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo both played with), Sonic Youth employed a palette of white noise that deconstructed punk-rock orthodoxy into radical new configurations. Seemingly the opposite of what major labels would want in a band, Sonic Youth inked a deal with Geffen records in the late 1980s and caught the ear of a certain mainstream listenership. With the release of their 16th proper studio album, RATHER RIPPED, in 2006, Sonic Youth secured their position as icons of underground and alternative culture.

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