Click here to talk about the next Sonic Youth album - The Eternal

Ha, if anything, I almost think you're being generous, croup.

I hear next time they're just going to release the contract to the public and put the album in a filing cabinet in Northampton.

haha

da croupier u mad

the montage sounds awesome - like rather ripped, but with dirtier,fuller,and even poppier sound that goes back to the early 90's Dirty days.
smells like fun.

Fuck, they couldn't wait to get off of Geffen so they went to ... Matador?

Unbelievable.

I put down the cash for the pre-order... $40 for the LP !! (With an MSRP of $50!!)
Last record ran for $15, this better be some deluxe shit.

PROMO IS HERE...ALREADY!

where'd you preorder? through matador?

matador pre-order not open til april 28 if i understand correct

leak? leak? leak????

buyearlygetnow.com has a list of local stores where you can order. I got it at 1234GO in Oakland. Anyway so far all they're giving out is the mini-mix preview of the album, which I couldn't properly download anyhow. April 28 is the date they're letting BEGN listen to a stream of the full record. So far, dud.

You also get an exclusive Live LP recorded at Battery Park on July 4th 2008 (and a free poster) with the Buy Early Get Now pre-order remember, as well as the access to the early stream of the full album, hence the highish price.

£21 for the CD, £28 for the LP versions in the UK.

first listen: most self-indulgent disc in a good while, not sure if that's a good thing or not yet

leaked.
sounds pretty great.
like Rather Ripped, but with thicker sound - which is better!

Concerned by "thicker sound"description; Rather Ripped sounds wicked?

Ripped was good, but here it seems that they took the same ideas, and developed a bit further.

ok, i tried...
happy april fools day...

i wuz fool't. plz leak!

getting better the more i listen

and sorry, not leaking, this shit's watermarked with my name

saw this sonic youth doc/concert movie last night, it's awesome and it made me excited for a new album.

I saw that a few months ago at a sneak preview in Austin, was pretty "meh" for me and I'm a huge fan.

so what is it? a doc about the band by teenagers, or just a concert movie? both?

mostly concert movie, with some brief interview snippets between songs and about 10 minutes of bullshitting with the band after the show.

what did you like about it? i'm only a casual fan, so it's not like i've even seen them live before.

Today i saw a leak around

a doc about the band by teenagers

OTM.

Granted it was mostly concert footage, but was pretty poorly organized and not very engaging.

Strange. There's a leak that is unmistakeably Sonic Youth (it's certainly Kim Gordon singing on a couple of tracks, though the rest could be them just improvising stuff), but it's not the album that's sampled here: .

interesting article from Simon Reynolds on the artist as consumer re: The Eternal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/apr/07/sonic-youth-underground-influences

Yeah the idea of Sonic Youth simply putting out generic SY album 1,2,3....no one needs that,surely. Where's the next Goo-esque cool t shirt design going to come from? Massive black marks for '5th member' influence - O'Rourke, Ibold.

Once upon a time Sonic Youth were funny people from New York who had the key to castle irony and sang about people much more famous than themselves. They should put Lung Leg on their next album cover.

http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/04/20/sonic-youth-first-mp3-secret-show-in-london/

Good song. I can't get over how short it is.

i just keep staring at that Edward Figaro post wondering what to make fun of first

haha, me too

don't know, it is strange to me the incredibly high standard some people hold this band to, as though at this stage in their close to 30-year career, they should be releasing some kind of game-changing record. For me, a new Sonic Youth record is like a new Neil Young record. Is The Eternal going to be as incredible as their masterpieces? Probably not. Am I going to enjoy the hell out of it? Totally. Because I like Sonic Youth.

tylerw crazy OTM. In fact, the Neil Young comparison is great for me, in that Sonic Youth has earned a spot like Neil's in my mind - in that I'll buy any new able unheard because I've loved so much of their previous material.

the quietus crews opinion is now online : here

i clicked on that link, read the first paragraph, then remembered why i shldnt click on any quietus links

The song descriptions and lyrics quoted in that article sound astoundingly like Kim Fowley in the 70's. I know they covered him, but sometimes I wonder just how many KF albums they actually have.

John says: They built a monorail linking Idlewild to Manhattan in 2002. An expressway to getting out of your skull. It towered over Gotham but a fatal accident meant it ran pretty much empty for the first few months of 2003. Ride the snake, said fat Jim. No pain, no gain, said Revolting Cocks. What does AirTrain sound like? I don't know. I was always too afraid to get on it. Ride the Claus Dinger highway baby. Kim Gordon sounds deranged. Nights out in Manhattan. A Piet Mondrian grid, seen from the air. Sleek lines. Brake light red. Street light yellow. White Light. White Heat.

Ugh quietus, wtf?

don't know, it is strange to me the incredibly high standard some people hold this band to, as though at this stage in their close to 30-year career, they should be releasing some kind of game-changing record. For me, a new Sonic Youth record is like a new Neil Young record. Is The Eternal going to be as incredible as their masterpieces? Probably not. Am I going to enjoy the hell out of it? Totally. Because I like Sonic Youth.

Thank you. i'd say Murray Street was a game-changing record. what do people want them to go electronic or something?

what do people want them to go electronic or something?
^
that would be awesome, i'd love to hear SY's version of trans

well, they did cover "Computer Age" ...

I got about one paragraph into that Quietus article and had to stop. Horrifically overwritten.

the key to castle irony

well you could say 'the whitey album' was their dance album

good tight energy and guitar playing in that song,sounds like something out of Dirty,but Kim Gordon's songs are-as always in the last 20 years or so-too obvious, boring,even annoying.