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  • Ciccone Youth 'Ž'The Whitey Album' - Cargo Records UK

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    Vinyl reissue of quintessential 1988 Top-40 tribute album. Features the classic Burnin Up demo featuring Mike Watt and Greg Ginn.

    Latest in Sonic Youth's vinyl reissue series which also features the group's 1982 debut, Thurston Moore's Psychic Heartsand deluxe (to come) & box set editions of Dirty and Goo.

    A deluxe vinyl re-release of Ciccone Youth's The Whitey Album, the full-length recorded by Sonic Youth's Top-40 obsessed alter-ego is now available on the band's own Goofin imprint. In 1988, after hinting that a tribute to the Beatles' White Album was in the works, the band about-faced and delivered this brain-sick celebration of pop-culture and The Material Girl in particular.

    The album has been spectacularly remastered and manufactured to provide hi-fi reproductions of such favorites as Needle-Gun, MacBeth,Ó and Mike Watt's original demo recording of Burnin Up.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Needle-Gun
    2. (silence)
    3. G-Force
    4. Platoon II
    5. Macbeth
    6. Me & Jill / Hendrix Cosby
    7. Burnin' Up
    Side B:
    1. Hi! Everybody
    2. Children Of Satan / Third Fig
    3. Two Cool Rock Chicks Listening To Neu
    4. Addicted To Love
    5. Moby-Dik
    6. March Of The Ciccone Robots
    7. Making The Nature Scene
    8. Tuff Titty Rap
    9. Into The Groovey
    10. Macbeth (Alt. Mix)
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  • Kim Gordon / Dj Olive / Ikue Mori - Cargo Records UK

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    The fifth release in Sonic Youth's SYR series does not feature Sonic Youth, but rather an avant-garde power trio of SY bassist Kim Gordon, turntablist DJ Olive, and programming electro-goddess Ikue Mori.

    Side A:
    1. Olive's Horn
    2. International Spy
    3. Paperbag / Orange Laptop

    Side B:
    1. Neu Adult
    2. Stuck On Gum
    3. Fried Mushroom

    Side C:
    1. What Do You Want? (Kim)
    2. Lemonade
    3. We Are The Princesses

    Side D:
    1. Take Me Back
    2. Take It To The Hit

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  • Sonic Youth ?'A Thousand Leaves' - Cargo Records UK

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    Side A:
    1. Contre Le Sexisme
    2. Sunday
    3. Female Mechanic Now On Duty
    Side B:
    1. Wildflower Soul
    2. Hoarfrost
    3. French Tickler
    Side C:
    1. Hits Of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg)
    2. Karen Koltrane
    Side D:
    1. The Ineffable Me
    2. Snare, Girl
    3. Heather Angel
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  • Sonic Youth 'Anagrama' - Cargo Records UK

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    The inaugural album sports a red houndstooth French language theme on the sleeve and contains 4 instrumentals. 

    Tracklisting:
    1. Anagrama
    2. Improvisation Ajoutee
    3. Tremens
    4. Mieux: De Corrosion

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  • Sonic Youth 'Bad Moon Rising' - Cargo Records UK

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    Sonic Youth 'Bad Moon Rising'

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    1985 sophomore album, back in print! LP + download card add four bonus tracks.
    Features 'Death Valley '69' with Lydia Lunch.

    EVOL, Sister and Confusion Is Sex reissues will follow this release. Sonic Youth's second full-length LP Bad Moon Rising was originally released on Homestead and Blast First in 1985.

    The album is a fascinating examination of 'the junction where hippie idealism [meets] the cold hard world,' says guitarist Lee Ranaldo, 'where Woodstock [meets] Altamont'Death Valley, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, musicians, murderers, heroes and villains.' Its original eight-song tapestry of droning guitar feedback, distant clattering percussion, and sullen vocals, all held together with interstitial noise loops and shadowy haze, ambles through a long, dark night before the feverish 'Death Valley '69,' driven by runaway guitar riffs and a frantic

    Thurston Moore / Lydia Lunch vocal duet, pounds the capstone into place. Sonic Youth's big leap forward from Confusion Is Sex and Kill Yr Idols 'reflects the spirit of the time,' to quote All Music Guide. Bad Moon Rising views 'American gothic through the glassy eyes of wilful moonlit paranoia.'

    Back in print on Goofin'Records, this reissue includes bonus tracks 'Flower' and 'Halloween,' both from a 12'single of the same era.

    The sound collage morsels 'Satan Is Boring' and 'Echo Canyon' are your cue to begin moving toward the exit and get out while you can. 

    Tracklisting:
    1. Intro
    2. Brave Men Run (In My Family)
    3. Society Is a Hole
    4. I Love Her All the Time
    5. Ghost Bitch
    6. I'm Insane
    7. Justice Is Might
    8. Death Valley '69

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    9. Satan Is Boring
    10. Flower
    11. Halloween
    12. Echo Canyon
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  • Sonic Youth 'Confusion Is Sex' - Cargo Records UK

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    Sonic Youth 'Confusion Is Sex'

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    First complete Sonic Youth album is one of Thurston Moore's favorites.

    Includes live cover of The Stooges''I Wanna Be Your Dog'. Vinyl includes digital download.

    Originally slated to be a 7' to follow up their self-titled debut, Sonic Youth's Confusion Is Sex blossomed into the band's first album: a brain-bludgeoning, completely fried endeavor of dissonance and disarray, a perfect soundtrack for running from a chain-wielding gang near the SIN Club.

    This was the sound of 1983 New York City, nothing like the jangly roots of college radio rock starting to formulate in Athens, Georgia. It sounded like no one else on Earth, for that matter. The raw, Wharton Tiers 8-track production is dark, the Kim Gordon- scrawled cover figure art of Thurston Moore is dark, Lee Ranaldo's back cover photo-collage and Catherine Ceresole's crumpled-xeroxed images that adorned the inside are dark. It's an album that moves Sonic Youth forward from their first EP almost by devolving backwards into true ugly, lo-fi primitivity.

    The bareboned arsenal of junkpile guitars and implementation of alternate tunings was growing, and so were the songs that matched the individual attributes of each instrument: certain ones groan and growl a specific way that the band started to realize itself could become the compositional germ of a song.

    Herein is the threshold of a new explosion of the band's creativity, replacing the comparatively cleaner buzz of the Sonic Youth EP with guitars that spew fractured, uglier chunks of sound everywhere, held down by menacing minimalist basslines (actually played by Thurston on half of this LP, and for the only time ever on 'Protect Me You,' Lee) and the brutal-yet-controlled metronomic drumming of Jim Sclavunos, augmented with replacement drummer Bob Bert's notable bashing on 'Making the Nature Scene' and grotty no-fi live rendition of 'I Wanna Be Your Dog.'

    Hearing the crashedwindow intro of 'Inhuman' and subway-brake screech of 'The World Looks Red,' you can attest that while Sonic Youth's guitars are not quite yet being utilized in the totally controlled, lyrical fashion seen later on albums like Evol, Daydream Nation et al., they were well aware of the colors and tonalities that were unfolding and the possibilities presented.

    Also, they were getting a grasp on adding colors to the chaos with tempered, simmering moments like Gordon's 'Shaking Hell' and Renaldo's chimy, home-taped 'Lee is Free.' 'Making the Nature Scene' and 'The World Looks Red' even toss in glints of hip-hop vocal approach way ahead of its time, albeit through a blender.

    While its confrontationalism might have put off some critics, time has rewarded Confusion with a truly distinctive air and atmosphere in the Sonic discography, enough to have Moore declare it his fave along with the band's swan-song The Eternal. Brian Turner, WFMU.

    Tracklisting:
    1. (She's In A) Bad Mood
    2. Protect Me You
    3. Freezer Burn / I Wanna Be Your Dog
    4. Shaking Hell
    5. Inhuman
    6. The World Looks Red
    7. Confusion Is Next
    8. Making The Nature Scene
    9. Lee Is Free
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  • Sonic Youth 'Evol' - Cargo Records UK

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    Vinyl includes free download, CD and download include bonus track'a cover of Kim Fowley's witchy masterpiece 'Bubblegum'.

    The third studio album by Sonic Youth, originally released in May 1986 on SST Records, shows the first signs that the band was ready to transform their no wave past into a greater alternative rock sensibility.

    'EVOL - ¦ mark[s] the true departure point of Sonic Youth's musical evolution,' says Pitchfork, who place the album in the #31 slot of their Top 100 Albums of The 1980s. 'In measured increments, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo - ¦ bring form to the formless, tune to the tuneless, and with the help of Steve Shelley's drums - ¦, [impose] melody and composition on their trademark dissonance.'

    Stereogum likewise praises the album as one that is 'full of suspense - ¦, the cornerstone [of] the Sonic Youth sound - ¦, ground zero for the combination of chiming guitars and atonal skronk - ¦ [and] muggy delirium - ¦. The virile Tom Violence'sounds less written than coaxed from a cauldron, the sort of song that fogs windows. The offkilter [droning love song] Starpower' - ¦ is sung [by Kim Gordon] in a frosty [Nico-evoking] monotone. In The Kingdom #19,'featuring Mike Watt on bass and - ¦ vocals [by Ranaldo] - ¦, is a harrowing story of a highway wreck over a suitably edgy instrumental backing punctuated by - ¦ live firecrackers into the vocal booth.'

    'EVOL slithers into the unconscious,' notes Popstache. 'Once the [detuned melodies and haunting riffs and] final whispers of feedback [of Expressway to Yr. Skull'] depart from the speakers - ¦, the music [leaves] a faded footprint, forever reeling the listener back for another strange trip.' 'The seeds of greatness - ¦' 'Pitchfork

    'A near-masterpiece.' 'Trouser Press

    'A stunningly fluent mixture of avant-garde instrumentation and subversions of rock'n'roll.' 'All Music Guide

    Tracklisting:
    1. Tom Violence
    2. Shadow of a Doubt
    3. Starpower
    4. In the Kingdom #19
    5. Green Light
    6. Death to Our Friends
    7. Secret Girl
    8. Marilyn Moore
    9. Expressway to Yr. Skull
    10. Bubblegum (CD-Only Bonus Track)
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  • Sonic Youth 'Goodbye 20th Century' - Cargo Records UK

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    The band gets back to their roots in avant-garde classical music. 100+ minutes of Modern Compositions on Double CD or Double LP. 

    Music composed by John Cage, Yoko Ono, Cornelius Cardew, Steve Reich, Takehisa Kosugi, Nicolas Slonimsky, George Maciunas, James Tenney, Pauline Oliveros and Christian Wolff. 

    Tracklisting:
    1. Edges
    2. Six (3rd take)
    3. Six For New Time
    4. +-
    5. Voice Piece For Soprano
    6. Pendulum Music
    7. Having Never Written A Note For Percussion
    8. Six (4th take)
    9. Burdocks
    10. Four6
    11. Piano Piece #13 (Carpenter's Piece)
    12. Piece Enfantine
    13. Treatise (page 183)

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  • Sonic Youth 'Ž'J'accuse Ted Hugues' - Cargo Records UK

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    The seventh installment in Sonic Youth's series of experimental and sometimes instrumental releases on the band's own SYR label features on the A-side a previously unreleased 22-minute drone piece recorded at the All Tomorrows Parties festival in the UK in April of 2001.

    At ATP, the band previewed instrumental and early versions of songs from the then soon-to-be recorded NYC Ghosts & Flowers album, and this exclusive performance was the premiere of J'Accuse Ted Hughes. The B-side is a soundtrack-style piece recorded at the band's Murray Street Studio in 2003 for a never-realized collaboration with French clothing designer Agnes B.

    The 18-minute-long song was recorded by a five-piece version of the band-the four members of Sonic Youth plus Jim O'Rourke, who also mixed Agnes B Musique.

    This LP will be soon followed by a CD-only release of the band's Another Side of Sonic Youth Roskilde Festival performance, where the five-piece Sonic Youth line-up was joined by saxophonist/reed player Mats Gustaffson and electronic noise legend Merzbow for an hour of improvised music.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    J'accuse Ted Hughes
    Side B:
    Agnès B Musique
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  • Sonic Youth ?'Murray Street' - Cargo Records UK

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    Side A:
    1. The Empty Page
    2. Disconnection Notice
    3. Karen Revisited
    Side B:
    1. Rain On Tin
    2. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
    3. Plastic Sun
    4. Sympathy For The Strawberry
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  • Sonic Youth ?'Rather Ripped' - Cargo Records UK

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    Side A:
    1. Reena
    2. Incinerate
    3. Do You Believe In Rapture?
    4. Sleepin' Around
    5. What A Waste
    6. Jams Run Free
    Side B:
    1. Rats
    2. Turquoise Boy
    3. Lights Out
    4. The Neutral
    5. Pink Steam
    6. Or
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  • Sonic Youth 'Simon Werner A Disparu (Original Enregistrement Sonore)' - Cargo Records UK

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    In Spring 2010 Sonic Youth gathered at their Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, New Jersey to watch the rushes of a new film, 'Simon Werner a Disparu,' by French director Fabrice Gobert.

    The band spent the following few weeks recording music which was then shaped to fit the various scenes of the film. For this release it was decided to do more than present the abbreviated clips of music used in the film. Instead the band went back to the original tapes and re-organized the various pieces; sometimes montaging multiple tracks together, other times extending cues into new sonic realms.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:

    1. Thème De Jérémie
    2. Alice Et Simon
    3. Les Anges Au Piano
    4. Chez Yves (Alice Et Clara)
    5. Jean-Baptiste à La Fenêtre
    6. Thème De Laetitia

    Side B:
    1. Escapades
    2. La Cabane Au Zodiac
    3. Dans Les Bois / M. Rabier
    4. Jean-Baptiste Et Laetitia
    6. Au Café

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  • Sonic Youth 'Sister' - Cargo Records UK

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    Classic 1987 album is one of the band's most beloved releases. Includes a cover of Crime's 'Hot Wire My Heart'.

    Vinyl includes digital download card with a bonus track 'Let's get something straight".

    There is no album in the entire corpus of indie rock'not Loveless, not Surfer Rosa, not Psychocandy' that reaches the heights of invention, joy, and magic of Sonic Youth's sublime fifth album.... The haunted reveries of Sister remain with you for years, even if you only hear them once - ¦.

    Sister is the sonic manifestation of refracted light. It's a record that changes you.' Stereogum. One of Sonic Youth's most beloved albums, 1987's Sister incorporated the dissonance of their earlier releases into more traditional song structures. It's an innovative and thrilling work assuredly delivered by a band at the peak of their powers.

    Reissued on the band's Goofin'imprint, this 2016 pressing includes a digital download card with the vinyl edition.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Schizophrenia
    2. Catholic Block
    3. Beauty Lies in the Eye
    4. Stereo Sanctity
    5. Pipeline / Kill Time
    6. Tuff Gnarl
    7. Pacific Coast Highway
    8. Hot Wire My Heart
    9. Cotton Crown
    10. White Cross
    11. Let's get something straight (Bonus Track)

    CD Bonus Track:
    11. Master-Dik
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  • Sonic Youth 'Ž'Slaapkamers Met Slagroom' - Cargo Records UK

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    Includes download card.

    Side A:
    Slaapkamers Met Slagroom

    Side B:
    1. Stil
    2. Herinneringen
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  • Sonic Youth 'Ž'Smart Bar Chicago 1985' - Cargo Records UK

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    Live multi-track recording of NYC legends¦. Rare photos and liner notes galore¦. Features the never-properly-released track Kat 'n' Hat¦.Vinyl includes digital download coupon¦..In the fall of 1985, Sonic Youth were touring the States following the release of their Bad Moon Rising LP.

    This show at Chicago's Smart Bar was recorded on 4-track cassette and consists of live versions of most of the songs from that album, early performances of Secret Girl and Expressway to Yr Skull (later to be released on Evol) and a rare, never-before-released live rendition of Kat 'n' Hat. Mixed and mastered by the band from the original tape source, this single-CD / double-LP edition includes liner notes by Gerard Cosloy and Sonic Youth engineer Aaron Mullan, plus unpublished photos by Pat Blashill and Steven Koress.

    The ideal archival offering would meet a list of criteria: it should be an unreleased and sonically compelling recording of an amazing performance, which not only sheds some light on the known Sonic Youth catalog for the serious aficionado, but also captures the attention of the general fan. It's a pretty tall order, but I think this tape from Chicago 1985 fits the bill¦. It's the earliest live multitrack of a Sonic Youth show known to exist. Having now listened to this tape maybe 100 times, I can say this: it's a killer show. The material was mostly released on the studio album Bad Moon Rising.

    The album is brilliant, but the material is also so visceral and improvisatory that it greatly benefits from the additional perspective offered by a live recording. Kim's vocals, more detached on the album, are fierce here. Sheets of feedback insanity on the album which I always assumed to be lucky studio accidents turn out to be actual parts that Lee and Thurston can re-create at will.

    The album was recorded with Bob Bert on drums, but this show was one of the first after Bob left and Steve took over. Bob's primal stomps doubtlessly propel the studio versions, but hearing these parts as interpreted by Steve's systematic pummeling, illuminates the crucial transition to the Evol and Sister albums and beyond. We do get a taste of Evol too, with an early performance of 'Expressway To Yr Skull' and the first known live performance of 'Secret Girl,' plus an instrumental version of the rarely performed, and never released, 'Kat 'n' Hat.' Aaron Mullan 2012

    Tracklisting:
    1. Hallowe'en
    2. Death Valley '69
    3. Intro / Brave Men Run (In My Family)
    1. I Love Her All The Time
    2. Ghost Bitch
    3. I'm Insane
    1. Kat 'N' Hat
    2. Brother James
    3. Kill Yr Idols
    4. Secret Girl
    5. Flower
    6. The Burning Spear
    1. Expressway To Yr Skull
    2. Making The Nature Scene
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    After twenty-three years of explosive creativity sonic youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since the genre-breaking daydream nation.

    Nurse is the nineteenth long player by the new york city supernova, an action explosion time magazine has already tagged as “sonic youth’s most adventurous and soul-stirring release to date, by a goddamn country mile.”

    Ten songs of american beauty and sonic death: on “pattern recognition” kim gordon takes justin timberlake’s hand and sticks it in a tendon-shredding meat grinder; they gay marriage the hell out of religious zealot war pigs cheney, rumsfeld, bush and ashcroft with the meditative “peace attack”; bare trees-era fleetwood mac jams with jealous again-era black flag on the heart-pounding “unmade bed” and “i love You golden blue”; the core reactor awesomeness of “paper cup exit” reduces such legends as led zeppelin and yes to just so much british schoolboy whimpering.


    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Pattern Recognition
    2. Unmade Bed
    3. Dripping Dream
    Side B:
    1. Kim Gordon And The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
    2. Stones
    3. Dude Ranch Nurse
    Side C:
    1. New Hampshire
    2. Paper Cup Exit
    Side D:
    1. I Love You Golden Blue
    2. Peace Attack
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    Sonic Youth's eponymous debut EP, reissued in a deluxe double- LP edition on the band's own Goofin imprint, was recorded in late 1981 at Radio City Music Hall in NYC and originally released on composer Glenn Branca's Neutral label.

    The album is loosely based on compositions the newly formed group had performed at that year's week-long Noisefest event (and remains the only recorded document of an early line-up featuring actor Richard Edson on drums).

    The newly remastered vinyl also features extra live material from a 1981 gig, and a track from a previously unheard studio session.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. The Burning Spear
    2. I Dreamed I Dream
    3. She Is Not Alone
    Side B:
    1. I Don't Want To Push It
    2. The Good And The Bad

    Early Live (September 18, 1981)
    Side C:
    1. Hard Work
    2. Where The Red Fern Grows
    3. The Burning Spear
    4. Cosmopolitan Girl
    5. Loud And Soft
    Side D:
    1. Destroyer
    2. She Is Not Alone
    Early Studio (October 1981)
    3. Where The Red Fern Grows
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    Previously unreleased studio recordings from 1986. LP Includes digital download code.

    The slow-burn sounds of Sonic Youth's 1986 rehearsals to score Ken Friedman's spooky highway film Made In USA are yet another mile marker in the band's long and varied existence, now being issued as Spinhead Sessions (named for the North Hollywood studio used by SST label acts like Black Flag and Painted Willie).

    These jams were later built upon for a full-on (and quite different) soundtrack production, but the rough sketches here find the band taking time with truly new and introspective sound worlds. It was basically a brand new way of working for Sonic Youth, albeit a challenging one, under the auspices of major Hollywood film production overlords, routing their way into the world of soundtrack scoring. And it all comes at a key time and place. It's no secret that 1986 was a transformative year for the band in many ways.

    The gravitation to the beloved SST stable, in addition to Steve Shelley, now drumming, certainly gave Sonic Youth a renewed vigor and vocabulary. They were already an international touring machine, and gaining considerable steam with critics (even spinning the heads of detractors who had dismissed their arty downtown boho sensibilities prior to '86's EVOL).

    Their cultdom with fans had concrete roots by this point, and the influences that were swarming in the band's orbit marked an exciting time, where almost any trajectory seemed possible, and they were going for it. Friedman's film worked on a relatively darker frame for a mainstream Hollywood flick; characters played by stars Chris Penn and Adrian Pasdar made a cross-country journey that started out in Centralia, Pennsylvania, a real-life, anthracite coal producing town that had to relocate all its residents due to a decades-long, inextinguishable underground fire.

    The Sonics passed through this haunted-looking locale on their next tour after the sessions, and are pictured on the sleeve standing amidst smoldering embers. For the sounds they made at Spinhead, this image seems a fitting mental picture. Guitar harmonics billow like smoke, heavily reverbed drumming and shimmering cymbals echo from what sounds like the bottom of a deep mine.

    This newly born Spinhead Sessions release once again defines Sonic Youth in a raw and engaging state of discovery at a terrific time. Is it a missing link between the complex, crafted cavernosity of EVOL and the frayedelectric powerline sizzle of Sister? Yes and no. It's an entirely unique animal, a meditative album where you can soak in the template of tapping overtones, sedate explorations of new chords, even sounding at times like AMM trying to play the VU's Sweet Sister Ray bootleg or something similar. It's trademark Sonic Youth at the core, and in an unfettered, dreamy state and time, there and gone like smoke. Brian Turner, WFMU Music Director.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Ambient Guitar & Dreamy Theme
    2. Theme With Noise
    3. High Mesa
    4. Unknown Theme
    5. Wolf
    6. Scalping
    7. Theme 1 Take 4
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