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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FBC, finalgear.com
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Len Firewood, Twitter
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Alex Quarmby, Edfringe.com
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Patrick Kavanagh, Guardian.co.uk
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Al Murray, Comedian
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Joskins, Leeds Music Forum
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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Johnny Kitkat, dontstartmeoff.com
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BBC iPlayer edition of discussion of Stewart Lee on A Good Read
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Pirate Crocodile, Twitter
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Maninabananasuit, Guardian.co.uk
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Anon, dontstartmeoff.com
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Genghis McKahn, Guardian.co.uk
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Aaron, comedy.co.uk
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