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- Summary: The live recording of the final New York concert from Sonic Youth at Brooklyn's Williamsburg Waterfront on August 12, 2011 was originally released digitally on Bandcamp but is remastered and remixed for its physical release.
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- Record Label: Silver Current
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Aug 18, 2023Live in Brooklyn 2011 is a stunning document of a veteran band challenging received wisdom and thriving in the excitement of rediscovery.
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Aug 21, 2023Fans will consider the show essential for its historical significance and the quality of the setlist, but the album’s energy pushes it beyond a completist live album, making Live in Brooklyn 2011 a wonderful cap to one of experimental rock’s greatest discographies.
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Aug 18, 2023Where career-spanning setlists from most veteran bands will inevitably succumb to wild variances in tone if not quality, Live in Brooklyn 2011 dissolves three decades into a holistic 17-track noise opera that enshrines Sonic Youth’s greatest attributes and contradictions.
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UncutAug 18, 2023The deep-cut-heavy, career-spanning set is manna for the faithful. [Oct 2023, p.48]
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MojoAug 18, 2023A thrilling 90-minute swansong. [Oct 2023, p.93]
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Classic Rock MagazineSep 15, 2023This is a fine monument to Sonic Youth's undimmed, anarchic, arthouse rock'n'roll fury. [Oct 2023, p.82]
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The WireSep 6, 2023It’s great to hear “Starfield Road” and other tracks from Sonic Youth’s neglected post-Dirty albums. But it’s the deep cuts – like the stunning “I Love Her All The Time” and the closing “Inhuman” – that really drag you back. [Oct 2023, p.66]