Sonic Youth are a band that I'd hear & bits and pieces from, but they'd never really inspired me to dip deeper into their work. I really quite enjoyed this album and ended up listening to it 3 times in a row. Love the mix of hypnotic but noisy drones, pared-back riffing, and dalliances with musique concrete.
This is a sonically exciting and experimental album, that still has a solid base in 'song' writing, with melody and structure being employed where appropriate. For me, the album's epic penultimate track "Expressway to Yr Skull" is the album's high point.
I like that it's not a straight instrumental album, but that the vocals are used sparingly, and often as more of an 'instrument' than as a way of communicating a message.
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