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- CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE
WEEK
- Sonic Youth "Sister" 1987 (USA)
Chelsea
Light Moving -- featuring Thurston Moore, formerly of Sonic Youth --
played in town tonight. Sister
was the fifth release by the Youth, one of a series of seminal albums
in which their sound and style was continually developing. Their next album
would be the one that started the group's unlikely climb to the lower
rungs of mainstream acceptance, so this record has always been somewhat
overlooked (though also a fan favorite; they always played a few tunes
from this album at concerts). Sonic Youth was one of the great
groups of the latter 20th century, and went on an indefinite hiatus
around 2011 (coinciding with the divorce of Thurston Moore & Kim
Gordon, one of rock's hippest couples -- as well as their daughter
reaching college age. Now don't that make you feel old!)
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