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- Summary: The latest release for Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo includes the Dust, his new band that includes fellow Sonic Youth alum Steve Shelley, Alan Licht, and Tim Lüntze.
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- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Oct 21, 2013He is comfortable enough with the sounds and effects we associate with Sonic Youth to replicate them without the intervening distance of reference, but he is also ready to push these sounds into other more conventionally tuneful byways.
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Oct 17, 2013An album in the old-school sense, with expansive tracks and detours that still add up to a cohesive whole, Last Night on Earth offers more proof that Ranaldo's music is just as satisfying, if not more so, on its own as it was as part of one of alternative rock's supergroups.
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Oct 8, 2013His lyrics are far more discursive and poetic, and grapple more strongly with existential issues. Musically, it can make for inspired moments like the wowing extended coda of “Blackt Out” or the Grateful Dead-like “Key-Hole.” Just as quickly, though, things can go sour.
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Oct 7, 2013It’s difficult, though, to listen to fifty percent of Sonic Youth making endearingly experimental music and feel obliged to pick faults with it. When Last Night on Earth gets it right, the results are magical--the searing ‘The Rising Tide’ is the highlight of any post-Youth output to date.
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Nov 25, 2013The brooding Last Night On Earth places Ranaldo in a seductively meditative setting. [Dec 2013, p.88]
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Oct 7, 2013Last Night On Earth is filled with guitar licks that manage to sound ferocious and friendly at the same time, marrying a slightly avant-garde persuasion and tight focused songwriting with something instantly warming.
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Q MagazineOct 16, 2013It's just a little underwhelming. [Nov 2013, p.115]
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