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4.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: Yoko Ono collaborates with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore on this avant-garde release.
  • Record Label: Chimera Music
  • Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Noise-Rock
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 13
  2. Negative: 2 out of 13
  1. Magnet
    Oct 22, 2012
    90
    Every move this unit makes feels intrinsically and unaccountably right in all sorts of inexplicable ways. [No.92 p.57]
  2. The Wire
    Oct 3, 2012
    80
    It's one of the most personal recordings from any of the three collaborators. [Sep 2012, p.63]
  3. Mar 28, 2013
    60
    YOKOKIMTHURSTON displays an issue that affects several contemporary aesthetic forms when they become institutionalized: no matter how transgressive, shocking, or committed an artistic statement can be, it still remains enclosed within the safe, whitewashed, antiseptic confines of the art gallery under the sheltering halo of “high-culture” values, for the admiration of a see-but-do-not-touch enlightened elite.
  4. Sep 28, 2012
    50
    YOKOKIMTHURSTON is not so much a decibel-bursting showcase for the Queen of Noise and her unruly understudies as a conversation between intimates speaking in tongues and tangles-- a voyeuristic glimpse into a private, discomfiting exchange.
  5. Oct 4, 2012
    50
    [The album] is disappointing, but not because it's unmusical or masturbatory or boring, although it is sure to be dismissed as all these things. On paper I love the idea of the musical direction of the record – there are just some insurmountable problems with the execution of it.
  6. Q Magazine
    Oct 23, 2012
    40
    It's less primal scream, more yawn. [Nov 2012, p.112]
  7. Under The Radar
    Sep 27, 2012
    20
    YOKOKIMTHURSTON is an improvisational cluster that has no beginning and no end, and no plot to keep listeners on the track to redemption. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.113]

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