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Sonic Youth, Murray Street

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1222668

Disk length: 52m 17s (8 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2002

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. The Empty Page 4:20
2. Disconnection Notice 6:24
3. Rain On Tin 7:56
4. Karen Revisited11:10
5. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style 4:27
6. Plastic Sun 2:14
7. Sympathy for the Strawberry11:38
8. DATA 4:02

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Review

As Sonic Youth will testify, it's not easy being avant-rock superstars. Follow your urge to experiment, and you risk alienating your more conservative fans. Stop experimenting, and you lose the impetus that made you so exciting in the first place. Such is the dilemma faced by this exceptional band in 2002, now wryly rechristened "Radical Adults" in one Thurston Moore lyric. Given the bewilderment that's unfairly greeted recent attempts to push their remarkable music to new extremes--notably their contemporary classical project, Goodbye 20th Century --Murray Street initially feels like something of a compromise; the band themselves admit it's more "song-oriented" than their last few albums. But hell, what a magnificent compromise. Named after the New York street where their studio is situated--and where a plane engine landed on September 11, 2001--Murray Street is potent, accessible, daring, and often obliteratingly lovely. For a start, the first three songs ("The Empty Page," "Disconnection Notice," and "Rain On Tin") easily rank with the highlights of SY's previous 15 albums. Obliquely melancholic, tuneful but unorthodox, all are enriched by great cascades of intricate three-guitar noise. When the Youth spin off on one of these bright and wild trips, these rich musical elegies for their city, they remain one of the world's great musical wonders. --John Mulvey

Other Versions

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