Tras la ruidosa cadena de interfaces eléctricas el cerebro Moore también guitarra de Sonic Youth se manifiesta, para el presente año 2008, con la entrega de dos fabulosos discos experimentos que sobre estimulan la fuerza del Feedback al alcance de nuestro deleite total de atraccion gravitatoria entre los climas del cuerpo femenino, detalles de cuerdas que cambian nuevos límites, sigue el extremo en tu tolelancia para que desbordes la esencia del rock creado al ritmo marcapaso siglo XXI, disfruten!.
Sensitive/Lethal CD
After last year's amazing 'Trees Outside The Academy' - his second album of solo songwriting - Thurston Moore takes a major look back into the noise arena with Sensitive/Lethal, an incredible three-part study in raw sound matter, utilising electronics and both electric and acoustic guitars. It's Thurston's unplugged activities that probably prompted the otherwise entirely ironic title 'Sensitive' for the first piece: buried under a maelstrom of extravagant feedback and yelping oscillator modulations a mantra-like open dreadnought chord lays down a foundation of clean, crisp steel string sounds, jangling excitedly like the beginnings of some unholy raga. After twenty-two minutes of this oddly beguiling punishment, the tone changes for 'Lonesome', a magnificent four-minute blast of stereo feedback cycles, sounding not unlike certain interpretations of Steve Reich's swinging mic piece 'Penduluum' - Sonic Youth's own version on Goodbye 20th Century springing most obviously to mind. Finally, 'Lethal' is a markedly less easily digested production, spewing forth analogue noise in all its myriad colours, with pure voltage controlled carnage in one ear and lacerating guitar in the other. There's still plenty of detail spread across the stereo field to make the piece an immersive listen though; after all, this isn't authored by just any old bedroom-bound tape jockey, but rather one of the founding fathers of noise rock and the modern American underground, so frankly it'd be surprising if this wasn't one of the very best noise albums of the year so far. Which it is, by the way.
Built for Lovin' CD
**STRICTLY LIMITED PICTURE DISC** Thurston teams up with fellow indie heroes Mark Ibold (one-time bassist in Pavement and former Free Kitten associate) Sunburned Hand Of The Man drummer John Moloney and his ever-reliable Sonic Youth sparring partner Steve Shelley. Supposedly, somewhere on here is a rough demo of a soundtrack to an HSBC advert (which presumably never aired?) but you really wouldn't want to take out a mortgage with a finance house that'd endorse this kind of filth. It's not all noisy abrasion - you'll find acoustic sketches and other odds and ends of instrumental pieces that would fit in with some quarter of Sonic Youth's discography, or even some of Thurston's solo output - but it's full on abrasive noise that makes up a good 80% or so of this MIGHTY picturedisc. As ever, this is a man who proves himself to be equally adept with a fried bank of oscillators as he is an acoustic guitar, so there's no worry that these sonic misshapes are going to be lacking quality and thoroughness, but be warned that this is closer in spirit to Thurston's hurts-so-good Sensitive/Lethal album than it is to the songwriter stylings of Trees Outside The Academy. Don't forget though: this is limited to just 500 copies worldwide! No dawdling.
After last year's amazing 'Trees Outside The Academy' - his second album of solo songwriting - Thurston Moore takes a major look back into the noise arena with Sensitive/Lethal, an incredible three-part study in raw sound matter, utilising electronics and both electric and acoustic guitars. It's Thurston's unplugged activities that probably prompted the otherwise entirely ironic title 'Sensitive' for the first piece: buried under a maelstrom of extravagant feedback and yelping oscillator modulations a mantra-like open dreadnought chord lays down a foundation of clean, crisp steel string sounds, jangling excitedly like the beginnings of some unholy raga. After twenty-two minutes of this oddly beguiling punishment, the tone changes for 'Lonesome', a magnificent four-minute blast of stereo feedback cycles, sounding not unlike certain interpretations of Steve Reich's swinging mic piece 'Penduluum' - Sonic Youth's own version on Goodbye 20th Century springing most obviously to mind. Finally, 'Lethal' is a markedly less easily digested production, spewing forth analogue noise in all its myriad colours, with pure voltage controlled carnage in one ear and lacerating guitar in the other. There's still plenty of detail spread across the stereo field to make the piece an immersive listen though; after all, this isn't authored by just any old bedroom-bound tape jockey, but rather one of the founding fathers of noise rock and the modern American underground, so frankly it'd be surprising if this wasn't one of the very best noise albums of the year so far. Which it is, by the way.
Built for Lovin' CD
**STRICTLY LIMITED PICTURE DISC** Thurston teams up with fellow indie heroes Mark Ibold (one-time bassist in Pavement and former Free Kitten associate) Sunburned Hand Of The Man drummer John Moloney and his ever-reliable Sonic Youth sparring partner Steve Shelley. Supposedly, somewhere on here is a rough demo of a soundtrack to an HSBC advert (which presumably never aired?) but you really wouldn't want to take out a mortgage with a finance house that'd endorse this kind of filth. It's not all noisy abrasion - you'll find acoustic sketches and other odds and ends of instrumental pieces that would fit in with some quarter of Sonic Youth's discography, or even some of Thurston's solo output - but it's full on abrasive noise that makes up a good 80% or so of this MIGHTY picturedisc. As ever, this is a man who proves himself to be equally adept with a fried bank of oscillators as he is an acoustic guitar, so there's no worry that these sonic misshapes are going to be lacking quality and thoroughness, but be warned that this is closer in spirit to Thurston's hurts-so-good Sensitive/Lethal album than it is to the songwriter stylings of Trees Outside The Academy. Don't forget though: this is limited to just 500 copies worldwide! No dawdling.
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Thurston Moore @ New Haven People's Center 5/31/08