For over two decades, Sonic Youth’s ageless hipster Thurston Moore has pursued stylistically disparate side-projects, from jazz noise to finger-picked folk. Now he alights upon acoustic balladry, a scoundrel’s last refuge.
Samara Lubelski’s pellucid cello plugs gaps gaping for guitar feedback, and Moore’s inescapable downtown sensibilities create an urban-pastoral hybrid. Circulation pulsates unamplified on the kind of intense open tunings Sonic Youth might have flayed electrically. In Silver Rain With A Paper Key sounds like Moore’s parent group on an extended modal trip, but stripped and softened. Imagine the last English Romantic, Nick Drake, wearing sunglasses, after a New York makeover.
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Neolab, Guardian.co.uk
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Lenny Darksphere, Twitter
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Birmingham Sunday Mercury
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Cyberbloke, Twitter
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Esme Folley, Actress, cellist, Twitter
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Peter Ould, Youtube
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