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yeah, the beat is kinda of a trap beat and the ending was pure guitar bliss.
Her Body/Head stuff is weird but it scratches the Sonic Youth weird noisy stuff while her solo album is really direct and more poppy. I guess Thruston has a very good album with The Best Day and kinda got derailed after that. And while Lee was prolific enough a few years ago, i have never been a fan of him solo.
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yeah, the beat is kinda of a trap beat and the ending was pure guitar bliss.
Her Body/Head stuff is weird but it scratches the Sonic Youth weird noisy stuff while her solo album is really direct and more poppy. I guess Thruston has a very good album with The Best Day and kinda got derailed after that. And while Lee was prolific enough a few years ago, i have never been a fan of him solo.
Yeah, I've just not gotten much out of the other guys' solo outings. The last one I loved was Thurston's Trees Outside the Academy. Everything else has felt like more of a monochromatic extension of what they individually brought to SY:
The Thurston records sound a lot like SY, and kind of demonstrate that he's the creative force behind the band, but they're lacking in the interplay from Kim, Lee, and Steve
The Lee records are just too much. His songs are usually my favorite on the SY albums, but I can never seem to take an entire album of his schtick.
Steve continues to be one of the most thrilling rock drummers going, but he's never seemed to find another project with quite as much depth as SY.
The big surprise is Kim, who has demonstrated an ability to really mutate her sound depending on who she's working with. I bet she could pivot and do a record with someone different and it would sound nothing like her recent stuff. Definitely the most interesting post-SY body of work for me.
The whole band sans Kim is doint what i think its a zoom thing for the new live album. I wonder if Kim knows about this or Thruston is just doing whatever he wants.
For anyone on the fence, and since I finally finished it, I enjoyed Thurston's book a lot.
That said, there's a handful of factual howlers and a few topics I'm surprised he didn't address (aside from the divorce), e.g. the period in the early/mid 90s when inter-band relations were reportedly pretty bad such that Lee was close to leaving the band, but it's pretty breezy overall and doesn't dwell too much on anything too heavy.
I really like Kim´s new album. Its very interesting and experimental, but sometimes it feels a little claustrophobic and repetitive.
totally agree, not an easy listen but a rewarding one for sure, i find it hard to press play again at the moment, gonna have to wait for the right time to digest it.
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