The guitarist Lee Ranaldo’s songs were among the New York art rockers Sonic Youth’s most beautiful, his extended tonal workouts mixing Deadhead riffing with minimalist repetition, unencumbered by the ironic fascinations with kitsch pop culture that dates his colleagues’ work.
Ranaldo’s extracurricular activities usually display solid downtown experimental sensibilities, but this solo album offers grown-up alterno-rock writ large.
Xtina As I Knew Her is seventies Neil Young lost in Eighties No Wave New York, a Crazy Horse’ vamp stained with darkly psychedelic post punk droplets, a school run soundtrack for former plaid-shirted grungers not yet ready to let go.
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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