My birthday was Wednesday, but on Thursday, Kerry gave me an addendum to my birthday presents:
She found a used vinyl copy of the new Sonic Youth record. I already had a downloaded version, but was aching for the vinyl – it’s a great record, but Sonic Youth has such a distinct sound that all the songs begin to sound kinda the same, so having the album divided into four parts is a great way to digest small chunks at a time.
Seriously, play anything off of “Daydream Nation” and then “Malibu Gas Station” off of “The Eternal.” You could exchange any bit of Sonic Youth’s career with almost any other bit of their career without noticing much of a difference. Or really minding that much. That’s just sort of how they work.
One thing to notice about the article for NPR’s “Song of the Day” is that it includes the stupidest text I’ve ever read on an NPR story:
Singer-guitarist Thurston Moore says that The Eternal, the noise-rock demi-gods’ 16th album, focuses on “avant-garde rock ‘n’ roll.”
Really? That’s like saying “The composer Mozart focused on a type of sound called ‘music.’”
Since when is it even worth mentioning that Sonic Youth makes “avant-garde rock ‘n’ roll,” much less a single dependent clause away from calling them “noise-rock demi-gods?”
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