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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Alternative
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Top Track
Small Flowers Crack Concrete | |
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(Thurston/Kim) small flowers crack concrete narcotic squads sweep thru poet dens spilling coffee grabbing 15 yr old runaway girls by frazzled... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 12 out of 18
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Mixed: 4 out of 18
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Negative: 2 out of 18
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Its avant parts are more listenable--nay, beautiful--than anything on Washing Machine if not A Thousand Leaves.
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Closer than any previous mass-market Sonic Youth album to the avant-garde sound that's always popped up in their extracurricular work.
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While it captures the contrary, questing essence of Sonic Youth surer than any SY release since 'Washing Machine', it also never betrays the sluggish, arrogant lack of self-editing that made '98's 'A Thousand Leaves' so bilious and unlovable, and the band's self-released 'SYR' EPs so hit and miss.
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The collection either encapsulates Sonic Youth's most endearing or annoying qualities, depending on how one feels about the band and the spoken-word poetics from Kim Gordon.
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The unruly, bad-dream aftertaste of this material echoes the quartet's early records from the 1980s... Even while there isn't a single song here that holds together from beginning to end, even as the music makes only itself felt in halting jigsaw fashion... the album has a gloomy, unaccommodating tenacity that's hard to shake.
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The big downside is the lyrics.
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An unfathomable album which will be heard in the squash courts and open mic nights of deepest hell.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 7
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Mixed: 1 out of 7
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Negative: 0 out of 7
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MarcusGJun 14, 2004
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GustavoAMar 3, 2005You have to close your eyes and let the music takes you to unknown places. Its UNIQUE
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ChronicRuthJan 10, 2007
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AndyJun 25, 2001A 56?? Seems it's hip to hate the Youth these days.
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JoeMay 24, 2009A good album. Not perfect but definitely interesting, a great record for Sonic Youth.
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SR.Sep 23, 2007
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JonLJul 23, 2007
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