How Sonic Youth tease us, with experimental offshoots and improvised side-projects.
In denying fans a fix of that addictive ugly-beautiful Eighties art rock they improve us, against our will. And how they tease again, hiding their most Sonic Youth like album for ages on the sound-track to a French film. Though vocal free, this is the Sonic Youth of your dreams, with gamelan guitars, tonal feedback drones, crunchy No Wave riffs and the vast, lounge flavoured, thirteen minute Theme D’Alice.
The sleeve shows a beautiful girl with her back to us, Sonic Youth in a nutshell.
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