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Sonic Youth - The Eternal
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Legendary New York indie-rockers Sonic Youth are back with their 15th studio album, The Eternal. To Sonic Youth fans, though, this is more like the fourth in a series of albums that has seen the band become totally revitalised with the turning of the century. What started with the majestic Murray Street and was further honed with the retrospective Sonic Nurse and the forward-looking Rather Ripped has been completed with The Eternal. Even the grandiose title evokes a sense of finality and timelessness. It's as though this album, more than any other since the band's landmark opus Daydream Nation, has been chosen as the ideal candidate to leave to posterity. Its 12 tracks are as much a window into the past as they are a window into the future. Melody was the instrument that helped shed light on everything Sonic Youth were doing. For an entire decade, the band meddled with dissonance like it were a dependence-inducing tricyclic. Their reliance on a musical form that they had already mastered saw them churn out stale albums, almost indistinguishable from one other. Occasionally, you'd glimpse an alternate path....full text |
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| Sonic Youth has always taken both parts of its name seriously, by combining ear-splitting noise with a heightened, not-always-ironic awareness of what interests kids today. The New York art-punkers’ new album The Eternal—which marks the group’s return to the indie realm after two decades in the majors—is as much of a statement of purpose as anything it’s recorded in the ’00s, even though the record gets off to a rough start. The Eternal opens with two atonal anthems—“Sacred Trickster” and “Anti-Orgasm”—that combine bratty leftist and New Age sloganeering with stripped-down, groove-oriented skronk. Like the rest of The Eternal, “Sacred Trickster” and “Anti-Orgasm” were reportedly written and recorded quickly, with minimal rehearsal, but aside from making an instant impact, neither gains much from the immediacy. The Eternal gets much better as it plays on, once the band reaches winners like the beautifully squalling “Antenna” and the smooth-but-sleazy “Malibu Gas Station,” both of which burble along organically and aggressively without becoming overbearing. The songs on The Eternal are more conventionally rock-oriented than any in Sonic Youth’s career, yet the album doesn’t really sound like a departure. When the band wraps up with the nearly 10-minute “Massage The History”—a song as accessible as it is sprawling—it seems to be declaring that in spite of the avant-garde trappings, Sonic Youth is now and always will be a rock band at heart....full text |
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People seem torn about The Eternal. It’s surprising to find Sonic Youth albums ‘divisive’ at this stage in their career, just as they’ve settled into a kind of twilight wisdom. But recently there’s been some complaining about their general ‘not avant garde-ness’ and their hegemonic status in the alterna-indie world, alongside the usual hosannas thrown toward every Sonic Youth album that isn’t NYC Ghosts and Flowers (though I’ll happily argue that’s one of their most under-rated and under-explored records). That’d be fine if Sonic Youth were stern vanguardists – but what we’re dealing with here is a rock group who actually appear most interested in keeping on being a rock group. That Sonic Youth means something, extra-musically, to a lot of people invested in the artifice and edifice of rock criticism is fine, but SY suffer the almost ignominious fate of not being allowed to be Sonic Youth in 2009: they’re always SY in relation to i.e. Daydream Nation, or the SY Geffen years, or their Juno pop-culture moment, or Starbucks Youth, or......full text |
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