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| Pitchfork |
 When Sonic Youth established their SYR imprint 14 years ago, the gesture symbolized something more than just a veteran act indulging their whims with a vanity label. It represented the point where the idea of Sonic Youth (as boundary-pushing, confrontational guitarrerorists) diverged sharply from their reality (as a steady recording and touring act performing their "120 Minutes"-minted "hits" for the alt-rock kids). And perhaps not coincidentally, the decision to launch SYR as a outlet through which to explore their more abstract ideas came shortly after Sonic Youth's first flirtation with Hollywood, having penned a handful of songs for the Richard Linklater/Eric Bogosian teen-angst document subUrbia.But while both their subUrbia contributions and their early SYR issue Slaapkamers Met Slagroom yielded material eventually reworked on the band's 1998 Geffen release, A Thousand Leaves, in the decade-plus since, the SYR experiments have turned more imposing and impenetrable (live collaborations with Merzbow; improvised tributes to Stan Brakhage) while the Sonic Youth brand ever more eagerly courts the mainstream (Starbucks-commissioned compilations; "Gossip Girl" cameos). However, the latest SYR marks an attempt to mediate the band's pop-vs.-art dialectic and, much like their subUrbia stint 15 years ago, the meeting ground is a teen flick. True to the series' experimental ethos, SYR9 is a collection of amorphous, atmospheric instrumental song sketches, but created in service to French director Fabrice Gobert's high-school-set mystery, Simon Werner a Disparu (or Lights Out, according to Netflix). This isn't Sonic Youth's first stab at composing a full-length score, but where previous efforts accompanied low-budget indie (Made in USA) or transgressive art-house fare (Olivier Assayas' Demonlover), Simon Werner a Disparu is an accessible, if elaborately structured, thriller about a series of disappearances at a French high school, featuring an attractive young cast that could've stepped out of any prime-time teen soap on the WB. But beyond the band's facility with ominous soundscapes, there's a tactility to Sonic Youth's music-- scraped guitar strings, vigorously stabbed chords, ghostly amplifier hums-- that easily lends itself to cinematic applications. Though I've not seen the film beyond a few clips on YouTube, the music effectively conjures the film's idyllic suburban high-school setting and the disturbing dramas playing out within in, recalling the California-hippie-dream vs. Manson-family-nightmare dichotomy that informed the band's mid-80s work....full text |
| Subwaywalk |
| The guys from Sonic Youth need no introduction, there are a band well know in the indie and mainstream scene doing what they do best...experimenting, they switch from one genre to the other always leaving a mark of their signature style everywhere, they are so unique that even when the members do individual stuff, the mystique and power of the band rises above and creates a personality of its own. Sonic Youth might be known for very guitar and reverbed introductions to songs that build around the presence of Thrustone Moore, but for the Simon Werner a Disparu the instrumentation it’s all we got, and let me tell you its fantastic! The music has mystery and life, lonesome, despair, angst. Everything with the Sonic Youth trademark, very psychedelic and experimental, reaching high levels of noise and then echoic mysteries, but also very dry drums and fun classic rock vibes, like in the track Dans les bois M. Rabier, the music in here has it all except voice, but remember after all it is a soundtrack, and a very good one. When people listen to scores like Tron with mega bands like Daft Punk I couldn't help but wonder what would people think of the work made by the duet in the score when compared to their previews work, and the thing is that one listens to Tron's score and there are very few moments you feel Daft Punk, but in Simon Werner a Disparu this is not the case, there is a very traditional Sonic Youth sound made for the purpose of looking good in the screen and in for the image....full text |
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