OK so I've done what should have been done from the beginning - put up a poll for the new record. Please go and cast your vote so that we (I) can get a clearer view of the general reaction to this album (monstrosity - I'm sticking to that!).
Thanks.

Sorry, I'm a bit late on this one. I got rather ripped the other day and noticed during the breakdown of the first track, what seemed to be main riff to "big money"? Anyone else hear this??

-Paul

I don't know why everyone is hating this. IMO dumping jim was a good idea, I think this is better than murray st. and nurse, but not quite as good as a thousand leaves. I like this better overall than the last two albums. It's not my favorite though, do you believe in rapture is pretty awesome, so is lights out, jams run free.

Reminds me of Psychic Hearts, the thurston solo record.

HighHopes wrote: I wish people would stop being so frightfully insecure about their musicallity and re-open their ears to what skull-crushingly passionate music is all about.

Wait a minute, you're talking about Sonic Youth being passionate? On what? The thing that I like (and hate) about Sonic Youth was the kind of artsy detachment and lack of overt passion in the music. Made it sound truly otherworldly at times.

Im not too keen.

It's like Sonic Youth without the distortion/noise.

admittedly I haven't heard this new album yet or anything from it, but surely a band with Sonic Youth's talent should be able to release a good album without distortion and noise. An album doesn't have to scare you in order to be good.

I like the new one a lot. I think this is the record they've needed to make for ten years or so. It's not too far out, nor is it too far in.

It's very easy to say that they should hang it up cause after all, they've already blazed all the trails that they're probably going to blaze. We've all gotten so used to bands like SY and Fugazi because they've been around for so long and I'm as guilty of anyone of taking them for granted, especially because as I see it, no two other bands have put the biggest sonic mark on 'independant' music. What they've both done has become such a part of the vocabulary, that nowadays, countless bands sound like the two, and probably don't even realize it (I'm so sick of 16th note octaves played on guitar that I could puke blood). That having been said, I'll take yet another Sonic Youth LP over any band that Pitchfork tells me is new and fresh and day of the fucking week. These guys invented this stuff for godsake.

I have heard this record

I would like to make a record this good when I'm circa 50 years old.

How many musicians that made great music in their 20s also make great music when they're 50?

Ben Adrian