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- Summary: The fourth full-length solo release for the Sonic Youth guitarist/singer sees the return to guitar rock with backing from Steve Shelley, My Bloody Valentine's Debbie Googe, and James Sedward.
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- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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| Speak to the wild reach the for wire protect your child from empty empire the king has come to join the band remove your wings and meet us near the... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 22 out of 26
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Mixed: 4 out of 26
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Negative: 0 out of 26
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Oct 17, 2014Purists will always pine for Sonic Youth and their glory days, but with a band and album this good, who cares about the past?
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Oct 19, 2014Both comforting and discomfiting, The Best Day recalls prime Youth, when their tense experimental attitude dovetailed with often sour but instantly accessible pop melodies.
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Oct 30, 2014He navigates through colorized thickets of tone on the long songs with the knowing confidence of a veteran wilderness guide.
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Oct 20, 2014The Best Day proves to be not so much a revelatory, introspective antidote to Moore’s best-known band as a serviceable, equally high-voltage substitute for it.
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Oct 21, 2014This is the best Sonic Youth-related album of the new decade so far, and the best Sonic Youth-related album since 2004’s Sonic Nurse.... Sure, it’s not perfect. Broadly speaking, the sound is too clean and Steve Shelley ain't the drummer he used to be.
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Oct 19, 2014While the newer additions to Thurston's muse are all well and good, The Best Day is most exciting when he returns to his most familiar trademarks, again investigating a sound that has spawned generations of imitators but still sounds like no one else.
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Oct 16, 2014The vocals are rather Thurston, too, like a chain-smoking Scrappy Doo, and structurally each song on The Best Day follows a specifically Thurstony pattern; all shimmery build-ups and thrashing bar chords, and deadpan vocals thudding solemnly along the top of it all.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Oct 22, 2014
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