Lee Renaldo
Here’s the thing that kind of stinks. I already have SY’s new album and I really like it, but i can’t get too excited for the release and tour, cos I know i’m not going to see them. Unless they play some small secret show that I find out about….I’m hoping that happens! I don’t want to go to see them at the Nokia or wherever they’re playing….The United Palace?
I guess i’ll have to be okay with blasting the records in my room. But my speakers are blown so I have to listen on computer speakers. Such bad sound. It Sucks.
Hey! This wasn’t supposed to happen! Check out Lee’s MAGIC journey into the woods….”we’ll know where when we get there.” This song is Lee (Renaldo) at his best and most adventurous.
“Hoarfrost” is off 1998′s A Thousand Leaves, a highly underrated SY album. It was released today, May 12. But in 1998. Crazy.
Sonic Youth: Hoarfrost
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Sonic Youth: Hoarfrost
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May 12, 2009 at 10:47 pm
jeffrey patsayjack
i asked my mom for money for a haircut, bought this album instead and had my friend give me a really bad haircut.
A Thousand Leaves, in my opinion, is the pinnacle of Sonic Youth’s “pop phase” as it favors the original nature of Sonic Youth by being TRULY experimental by challenging the band’s comfort zone by achieving new textures and song forms.
While I continue to sincerley enjoy SY’s somewhat-of-a-yearly rehash of once shocking mechanics, I don’t know if the band has pushed themselves as hard since this album. Though NYC ghosts and Flowers seemed an almost worthy minimalist challenge to ATL stylistically, it’s not as poetic, mind blowing and hardly enjoyable.
May 12, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Robotic Arm
look for a sonic show on july 4th popping up somewhere in nyc…..
if that doesn’t happen there are plenty of rawk venues there are playing easily accessed from one of the local airports…
atl-variety playhouse
birmingham- sloss furnace -an outdoor haunted venue.