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77 out of 100

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8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 32 Ratings

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  • Summary: The veteran New York band, again operating as a five-piece (with Jim O'Rourke still in the group), return with a successor to one of their best albums in recent memory, 2002's 'Murray Street.'

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. No Ripcord
    100
    Sonic Nurse could be the best guitar rock album since, well, Murray St.
  2. Drowned In Sound
    100
    ‘Nurse’ is the closest to creating a landmark on parallel with ‘Daydream Nation’ they’ve come since that particular record's nameday in ‘88, and in it’s dense textures it maybe signals the extinction of the antediluvian No Wave idyll; a Robert Zimmerman trip that somehow got mixed up with Joni Mitchell, Black Flag and a conceptualist oddball.
  3. Mojo
    60
    Sonic Nurse is not... a classic rock record. And it's not a classic Sonic Youth record. It's an excursion, into corners weird and corners familiar. [Jun 2004, p.100]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. SeamusS
    10
    A surprisingly beautiful record. There's something in here that you'll find in the best of Sonic Youth's album. That something is their ability to make something sound beautiful and remain dangerous, never straining their sound or sounding like they're trying to hard. This ranks amongst their best.… Expand
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  2. craigf
    10
    there last few records have consentrated more on instremental parts then song structure(a chorus). this record captures those ideas but with strong choruses added to the mix. this might be the best hard rock record of the last ten years and definatlly their best album since daydream nation. check out stones and paper cup.… Expand
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  3. Mike
    0
    Wow, it's definitely not worth bothering with.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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