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SONIC YOUTH - Rather Ripped
| StylusMagazine |
| For a lot of people, Sonic Youth are New York City in the same way that, once upon a scene, The Velvet Underground were New York City. And like the VU, the Youth are consummate, inveterate bullshitters. Around their circles, it's the law of the land, the legal tender, and the lingua franca: you must have some and the more, the better....full text |
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| Slant Magazine |
| Rather Ripped, the gagillionth studio album from veteran noise-rockers Sonic Youth, continues with the mellow, poppy vibes the band started emphasizing on 2002's Murray Street. There's hardly a hint of the eardrum shattering noise of their '80s output, though they're still first and foremost a "guitar" band; Grateful Dead and Television fans alike will love the circular noodling that makes up the bulk of the album....full text |
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| CokeMachineGlow |
| On a number of levels that have directly to do with temporally-based events and environments, the continued output of Sonic Youth makes a tremendous amount of sense. One might argue that legacy ensured, seminal status secure, any band should reasonably apply some brakes, look back, heave a sigh of satisfaction, and avoid a risk of discoloring an idyll of past accomplishment with the latter-day smog of comebacks. Or one might reasonably fret that a band shouldn’t risk failing the perpetual litmus test of originality that they’ve passed so many times before....full text |
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