Thurston Moore | ||
| Allmusic Biography : Along with his work as part of the acclaimed art/punk rock band Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore also pursued numerous solo and side projects, including Even Worse and the Dim Stars with Richard Hell. His first solo album, 1994s Psychic Hearts, featuring ex-Half Japanese guitarist Tim Foljahn and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, had an appropriately offhand feel but was far from sloppy. Along with carrying Sonic Youth into the 2000s, Moore collaborated with artists including DJ Spooky and Nels Cline, wrote music reviews and other pieces for Arthur magazine, and issued a book, Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture, in 2005. His second song-based album, Trees Outside of the Academy, arrived in 2007, and featured largely acoustic arrangements and cameos by Shelley, Samara Lubelski, and Dinosaur Jr.s J Mascis. In 2010, Moore guested on the Hat City Intuitives A Ticket for Decay and began laying the foundation for another solo effort, Demolished Thoughts, which appeared the following year. Following Moores separation from bandmate, wife, and partner Kim Gordon in late 2011, Sonic Youth was put on indefinite pause. Nevertheless, Moore and Gordon collaborated with Yoko Ono the following year on the album YOKOKIMTHURSTON. By 2012, Moore had begun touring and recording with new act Chelsea Light Moving, as well as joining black metal group Twilight on guitar. The year 2013 saw the release of @, a collaborative album of sax/guitar improvisations with fellow N.Y.C. fringe dweller John Zorn. Arriving in 2014, The Best Day saw Moore shedding the softer acoustic moods of Demolished Thoughts for a return to his signature rock sprawl and daydreamy lyrics. Two years later, he issued the single "Feel It in Your Guts," which was available to anyone who donated to Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. For 2017s Rock n Roll Consciousness, Moore reunited with his backing band for The Best Day -- Sonic Youth drummer Shelley, My Bloody Valentine bassist Deb Googe, and Nought guitarist James Sedwards -- on a mystically inspired set of songs. | ||
 | Album: 1 of 38 Title: The Crumb Released: 1988 Tracks: 3 Duration: 12:31 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 The Crumb (05:41) 2 Done Dun (04:29) 3 The River (02:21) |
 | Album: 2 of 38 Title: Shamballa Released: 1994 Tracks: 3 Duration: 1:06:09 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Sirius Part 1 - Wheels (16:18) 2 Sirius Part 2- Wings (21:44) 3 continuous 0 Time ... consciousness. The Hat ... and its train. (28:07) |
 | Album: 3 of 38 Title: Klangfarbenmelodie... and the Colorist Strikes Primitiv Released: 1995 Tracks: 2 Duration: 39:42 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Klangfarbenmelodie... and the Colorist Strikes Primitiv (32:00) 2 Phase II (07:41) |
 | Album: 4 of 38 Title: Psychic Hearts Released: 1995-05-09 Tracks: 15 Duration: 1:06:18 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Queen Bee and Her Pals (02:56) 2 Ono Soul (03:29) 3 Psychic Hearts (03:57) 4 Pretty Bad (03:59) 5 Patti Smith Math Scratch (02:43) 6 Blues From Beyond the Grave (04:36) 7 See-Through Playmate (02:18) 8 Hang Out (04:10) 9 Feathers (02:20) 10 Tranquilizer (02:06) 11 Staring Statues (02:35) 12 Cindy (Rotten Tanx) (03:47) 13 Cherrys Blues (02:05) 14 Female Cop (05:25) 15 Elegy for All the Dead Rock Stars (19:46) |
| Psychic Hearts : Allmusic album Review : It was inevitable that Thurston Moores first solo offering would sound a bit like Sonic Youth, considering how integral his guitar playing and singing are to the bands sound. What is surprising about Psychic Hearts is how Moore twists his standard lexicon of detatched vocals, dissonant guitar lines, and deliberately obscure musical/lyrical references into something resembling pop music, which is something Sonic Youth has rarely been able to achieve. Fourteen of the albums 15 tracks are built around concise, angular guitar hooks complemented by Moores unashamed, nearly melodic vocals. "Elegy for All the Dead Rock Stars" is a 20-minute instrumental, which is measured and evenly paced, surging toward a gentle conclusion. Psychic Hearts displays a softer, more reflective side of a musician known for his passion for disguising his emotions and ideas in noise. | ||
 | Album: 5 of 38 Title: Piece for Jetsun Dolma Released: 1996-12-01 Tracks: 2 Duration: 1:07:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Piece for Jetsun Dolma, Part 1 (34:51) 2 Piece for Jetsun Dolma, Part 2 (32:09) |
| Piece for Jetsun Dolma : Allmusic album Review : In 1996, Thurston Moore was still mostly known for his work with the rock group Sonic Youth. In 1996, the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville was an established institution in the realm of serious experimental, improvisational, and avant-garde music. In 1996, Moore was invited to play the FIMAV. Anyone present at the concert could feel how awkward the setting was: young fans cheering and hooting at first, looking confused a few minutes later, but not as confused as the festivals connoisseurs who came that night with very low expectations. You can actually hear all that on Piece for Jetsun Dolma, released on the festivals label, Disques Victo. Moore (guitar, noise) was flanked by Tom Surgal and William Winant. Surgal played impressive free rock drumming, while Winant made use of a wide array of percussion, from tympany to sheet metal and bells. The three of them played for 67 minutes without interruption, except for a short hiatus (hence the split in two parts on the CD). Moores approach here was similar, although less extreme, to what Keiji Haino can do with his trio Fushitsusha: walls of noise gradually built and brought down. The Americans music is more textural, less cathartic than the Japanese. The interest does not sustain throughout as there are empty passages, but overall this is a strong performance. Fans of Sonic Youth already acquainted with the bands more improvisational releases (on their own label SYR) will particularly appreciate Piece for Jetsun Dolma. | ||
 | Album: 6 of 38 Title: Legend of the Blood Yeti Released: 1997 Tracks: 9 Duration: 1:14:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Spiral Bracts (02:58) 2 The Dwarf Willow (00:33) 3 Fascicle / Resin Canals / The Nutlike Seed (07:23) 4 Blinter Rust (01:02) 5 Qanit / Aput: Capped Columns / Spiral Dendrites (06:36) 6 Pediculus Portentosus / Pediculio Desperandum Est (06:27) 7 The Unnameable (03:02) 8 The Body of Desire / The Fruid Animal Thing / Pulpous Concord (30:05) 9 The Tongueless Mound / Despair / Fight to Blackout (15:50) |
 | Album: 7 of 38 Title: Mmmr Released: 1997 Tracks: 3 Duration: 41:53 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Mazzacane Connors / Montera (11:11) 2 Mazzacane Connors / Montera / Moore (10:07) 3 Mazzacane Connors / Montera / Moore / Ranaldo (20:35) |
| Mmmr : Allmusic album Review : Recorded shortly after the construction of Sonic Youths Echo Canyon Studio in lower Manhattan, MMMR features avant-garde guitarists Loren Mazzacane Connors and Jean-Marc Montera alongside Sonic Youth guitarists (and confessed Connors fans) Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. The disc features three untitled pieces, each with a slightly varied lineup (the first featuring just Connors and Montera, the second adding Moore to the lineup, the third -- and longest -- adding Ranaldo as well). Stylistically, the disc is fairly typical free guitar improv (indeed, thats the only instrument featured), with more emphasis on tone and texture than linear melody or rhythmic development. The first track, featuring just the duo, is -- somewhat obviously -- the most minimal of the three. The addition of Moore and Ranaldo on the succeeding tracks is a nicely logical one, letting the listeners ear subtly grok each of the instrumental voices. The second and third tracks are easily the best, with subtly rhythmic industrial clangs creating an idiosyncratic framework for feedback explorations. | ||
 | Album: 8 of 38 Title: Pillow Wand Released: 1997-07 Tracks: 5 Duration: 1:05:57 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Burnt Klubgirl Lid Tone (09:46) 2 Blues for Helen Burns (15:49) 3 Tommy Hall Dragnet (10:59) 4 We Love Our Blood (13:34) 5 I Inhale You (15:49) |
 | Album: 9 of 38 Title: Not Me Released: 1998 Tracks: 2 Duration: 21:55 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Not Me (11:08) 2 Lydias Moth (10:46) |
 | Album: 10 of 38 Title: Piece for Yvonne Rainer Released: 1998 Tracks: 2 Duration: 58:27 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Part 1 (29:18) 2 Part 2 (29:09) |
 | Album: 11 of 38 Title: Root Released: 1998-11-06 Tracks: 25 Duration: 1:18:29 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 [untitled] (Derek Bailey remix) (01:07) 2 [untitled] (Alec Empire remix) (04:58) 3 [untitled] (Mogwai remix) (01:12) 4 [untitled] (Luke Vibert remix) (04:50) 5 [untitled] (Donald Christie & The Underdog remix) (01:38) 6 [untitled] (Blur remix) (05:54) 7 [untitled] (Mark Webber remix) (02:28) 8 [untitled] (Stereolab remix) (03:42) 9 [untitled] (Cheap Glue remix) (02:11) 10 [untitled] (Add N to (X) remix) (02:55) 11 [untitled] (Springheel Jack remix) (05:16) 12 [untitled] (The Hypnotist remix) (00:37) 13 [untitled] (The Mellowtrons remix) (02:01) 14 [untitled] (Warren Defever remix) (04:01) 15 [untitled] (V/Vm remix) (02:34) 16 [untitled] (Third Eye Foundation remix) (04:09) 17 [untitled] (David Cunningham remix) (01:57) 18 [untitled] (Echo Park remix) (03:33) 19 [untitled] (Merzbow remix) (03:44) 20 [untitled] (Richard Thomas remix) (05:48) 21 [untitled] (Stock, Hausen & Walkman remix) (04:10) 22 [untitled] (Twisted Science remix) (02:40) 23 [untitled] (Bruce Gilbert remix) (03:15) 24 [untitled] (Arashi remix) (02:37) 25 [untitled] (Russell Haswell remix) (01:02) |
| Root : Allmusic album Review : Its a premise that must have seemed quite promising at the time: Lo Recordings mailed 100 Thurston Moore guitar warblings to a myriad of artists. The artists were asked to create new works using Moores original music as a starting point. While the list of artists who accepted the challenge is impressive, including Mogwai, Luke Vibert, Blur, Stereolab, Add N to X, Springheel Jack, and Bruce Gilbert, among others, the end result isnt cohesive as a slab of experimental music. Too many of the "additional producers" reach for all-out noise in the name of "art." Its not the big names who turn in the standout tracks. Springheel Jacks song is vexing and beautiful, sounding like a continuation of the ambient style Disco Inferno once traversed. The Mellowtrons create a fierce driving beat punctuated by Moores squelching guitar. Echo Park masters the trippy electronic style of Luke Vibert, who falls a bit flat in his own lo-fi contribution. Without placing blame, there are a number of contributors whose uninspired work didnt deserve to make the cut. Striving for experimentation and artistic credibility, many of the contributors to Root dug themselves into holes of musical meaninglessness, to the point where the only salvation is the "skip" button on ones remote control. Root would have worked better as an EP than a nearly 80-minute album. Its impenetrable, not because of any inherent artistic sensibility, but because three-fourths of the contributions sound as if they were thrown together in mere minutes. | ||
 | Album: 12 of 38 Title: Lost to the City / Noise to Nowhere Released: 2000 Tracks: 2 Duration: 1:02:28 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Lost to the City (for Aldo Rossi) (54:49) 2 Noise to Nowhere (for Iancu Dumitrescu) (07:39) |
 | Album: 13 of 38 Title: New York - Ystad Released: 2000 Tracks: 2 Duration: 1:02:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Without Kim I (44:26) 2 Without Kim II (17:34) |
 | Album: 14 of 38 Title: Fuck Shit Up Released: 2000 Tracks: 2 Duration: 1:11:33 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Paix, Amour (1:02:30) 2 Pour Diane Allaire (09:03) |
 | Album: 15 of 38 Title: Three Incredible Ideas Released: 2001 Tracks: 3 Duration: 00:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Three Incredible Ideas, Part 1 (?) 2 Three Incredible Ideas, Part 2 (?) 3 Three Incredible Ideas, Part 3 (?) |
| Three Incredible Ideas : Allmusic album Review : This recording may surprise some admirers of Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, but Moore has been exploring the kind of radical free improvisation found here since at least the 1990s. Recorded in Italy, the three pieces feature the guitarist with two highly compatible veterans of the avant-garde scene: cellist and electronics manipulator Walter Prati and trombonist and electronics guru Giancarlo Schiaffini. The three pieces ("Three Incredible Ideas, Parts 1-3") are spontaneously improvised, but there is such synergy among the musicians that the flow of ideas is seamless. There is a sense of development, too, as concepts sprout from kernels, and grow into larger abstractions. At times there is an ambient quality, but sometimes a hardcore assault on the senses. The results are different than some other radical projects of the same genre, though, in the emphasis on mood and nuance. There are often periods of quiet, followed by aggressive interludes. What distinguishes this from the pack is the clever and varied use of electronics, the superb trombone work (open, muted, and distorted) of Schiaffini, the variety of instrumentation, and the way in which the instrumentalists listen closely to each other. While there are no melodies, the pieces logically incorporate and expand on musical constructs, making this complex and in some ways remarkable recording surprisingly accessible and rewarding. | ||
 | Album: 16 of 38 Title: Live at Tonic Released: 2003-04 Tracks: 3 Duration: 1:13:05 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover | 1 Tonic One (34:59) 2 Tonic Two (23:19) 3 Tonic Three (14:47) |
 | Album: 17 of 38 Title: Four Guitars Live Released: 2006-02-28 Tracks: 1 Duration: 41:50 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Untitled (41:50) |
 | Album: 18 of 38 Title: Melbourne Direct Released: 2006-11 Tracks: 4 Duration: 1:22:58 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 [untitled] (22:17) 2 [untitled] (20:53) 1 [untitled] (19:06) 2 [untitled] (20:42) |
 | Album: 19 of 38 Title: Trees Outside the Academy Released: 2007-09-18 Tracks: 12 Duration: 45:18 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Frozen Gtr (04:06) 2 The Shape Is in a Trance (04:39) 3 Honest James (03:49) 4 Silver > Blue (05:51) 5 Fri/End (03:19) 6 American Coffin (03:56) 7 Wonderful Witches + Language Meanies (02:24) 8 Off Work (04:12) 9 Never Day (04:01) 10 Free Noise Among Friends (00:34) 11 Trees Outside the Academy (05:50) 12 Thurston @13 (02:37) |
| Trees Outside the Academy : Allmusic album Review : "What am I going to do next for your ears to taste?" a 13-year-old Thurston Moore asks on Trees Outside the Academys aptly named hidden track, "Thurston @13," on which Moore demonstrates the sound of rubber bands twanging and Lysol being sprayed in the air. Moores approach has gotten more sophisticated over the years, but that playful curiosity remains in his music with and without Sonic Youth. Trees Outside the Academy is Moores second song-based solo album; the first was 1996s Psychic Hearts, which distilled Sonic Youths atonal pop leanings at the time into spare, sketchy rock that crackled with intensity. Trees feels like an extension -- make that a branch -- of the hypnotic calm Moore and company pursued on Rather Ripped and Sonic Nurse. However, Trees Outside the Academy goes even deeper into that meditative territory, focusing on Moores acoustic guitar textures and songwriting in a nimble way that underscores that this is his album. Backed by violinist Samara Lubelski and the Youths Steve Shelley on drums, Moore leads the trio through moody, layered songs like "Frozen Guitar," where Lubelskis strings sound completely organic and intrinsic to the song, even as they spar with and bleed into guest guitarist J Mascis fiery leads (Trees Outside the Academy was recorded at Mascis Bisquiteen studio with John Agnello, who also worked on Rather Ripped). Moores ringing guitar lends itself as well to modern-sounding acoustic music as it does to Sonic Youths plugged-in experimental rock, and Shelley and Lubelski are just as game; one moment, they sound like theyre playing on the back porch of a farmhouse, and the next like theyre playing in a downtown gallery. "Honest James" is an underground folk-rock singalong, with jubilant guitars and Charalambides Christina Carter adding gorgeous backing vocals to Moores laconic drawl, while "Silver Blue" is sleek, droning acoustic rock. As Trees Outside the Academy unfolds, it gets more eclectic: "Fri/End" has a melody so, well, friendly that you can almost see it wagging its tail, and pits some of Moores most straightforward lyrics with some of his most playful stream-of-consciousness wordplay. "Wonderful Witches + Language Meanies" silly, loose-limbed rock wouldnt fit on a Sonic Youth album, but it sounds great here, next to "Off Work"s skronk and "Never Day"s blissful pop. Though its only a 37-second interlude, the title of "Free Noise Among Friends" sums it up best: not only did Moore record Trees Outside the Academy with some of his closest friends, but the albums good-natured sprawl is so appealing that it makes its listeners feel like friends, too. | ||
 | Album: 20 of 38 Title: Built for Lovin Released: 2008 Tracks: 11 Duration: 32:15 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Groupie (00:46) 2 Pussyman (00:35) 3 Hell (07:17) 4 Shoot It Up (01:20) 5 Snow Sex in Oslo (00:41) 6 Pornstar in the Morning (00:37) 7 Los Angeles (05:11) 8 Anticipated Action (00:51) 9 Media Scum (00:13) 10 Nederlanden Meat Joy (09:36) 11 Sex Addict (05:08) |
 | Album: 21 of 38 Title: Untitled Released: 2008 Tracks: 3 Duration: 1:08:48 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Sex (03:39) 2 Drugs (24:23) 3 Lavendar (40:46) |
 | Album: 22 of 38 Title: Sensitive / Lethal Released: 2008 Tracks: 3 Duration: 51:58 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Sensitive (21:59) 2 Lonesome (03:59) 3 Lethal (26:00) |
| Sensitive / Lethal : Allmusic album Review : Thurston Moores Sensitive/Lethal is a mad trilogy of sculpted guitar noise, a droning experiment in distortion and dissonance. It could be called refreshing that Moore is still experimenting here with his beloved axes so far into this career and at the age of 49, but the music in no way refreshes the ears or the soul of anyone within earshot. Thats not meant as a criticism, because the albums 52 minutes see guitars laid to waste as some kind of cleansing musical catharsis; its not meant to be fun. Opener "Sensitive" is 22 minutes of distorted wailing guitars performing blood-splattering bestial autopsies over a base of uneasy chiming acoustic guitars. Midway in things start to collapse, as the sounds become more atonal but beautiful in their violent, apocalyptic sorrow. "Lonesome" isnt the pensive after-dinner mint its title suggests. Instead its a wonky four-minute bridge of guitars acting like nails down chalkboards, the scraping and colliding of passenger ferries just before they sink in some disturbing, industrial accident. "Lethal" is an appropriately named 26-minute marathon of guitar stabs, head-splitting high-pitched whines, chirping electric frequencies, and twirling mad sine waves that finally ends in a prolonged series of droning tones that sound like the death of the instrument. Its Jimi Hendrix had he been a psychotic alien on steroids, or its a recital in hell. You can always sense the artist sculpting the sounds behind the noise, especially given Moores no wave background and work with Glenn Branca. The experiment here seems as much about understanding audience tolerance as it does about sonic manipulation. At high volumes "Lethal" can be quite punishing, and as with many noise rock recordings, the lack of a live audience takes something from the equation. Its too easy to turn down the volume or stop playback altogether with an album, though at a get-together one could see how fast a room would clear. Sensitive/Lethal is an interesting, sometimes beautiful, and often difficult and disturbing look into Thurston Moores painful love affair with the guitar. | ||
 | Album: 23 of 38 Title: Senso Released: 2009-10-26 Tracks: 2 Duration: 40:34 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Fear of Fear (of Fear) (40:34) 1 The Eyes the Mouth (?) |
 | Album: 24 of 38 Title: 12-String Meditations For Jack Rose Released: 2011 Tracks: 10 Duration: 00:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Lord Chesterfield (?) 2 Triple Moine (?) 3 Gouden Carolus (?) 4 Brasserie Du Boco Triple Monk (?) 5 Malheur 6 (?) 6 Poperings Hommel (?) 7 Moinette Biologique (?) 8 De Koninck (?) 9 De Ryck Arend Dubbel (?) 10 Lord Chesterfield II (?) |
 | Album: 25 of 38 Title: Demolished Thoughts Released: 2011-05-16 Tracks: 9 Duration: 46:47 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 Benediction (05:16) 2 Illuminine (04:02) 3 Circulation (04:10) 4 Blood Never Lies (05:07) 5 Orchard Street (06:56) 6 In Silver Rain With a Paper Key (05:43) 7 Mina Loy (04:02) 8 Space (06:39) 9 January (04:52) |
| Demolished Thoughts : Allmusic album Review : Though it’s somewhat surprising Thurston Moore and Beck didn’t work together prior to Demolished Thoughts, their collaboration lives up to its promise, delivering an album of psychedelic chamber folk that is the perfect meeting of both artists’ mellow sides. At times, Beck the producer feels like a junior version of his longtime collaborator Nigel Godrich -- and indeed, Beck brings some of the expansive intricacy of works like Sea Change to this set -- but here he’s truly accomplished, embellishing Moore’s songs with special effects that really are special. “Illuminine”s rippling harps and sparkling electronics conjure a vast, dusky twilight filled with fireflies, while the strings and layers of other sounds on “Blood Never Lies” float along like pieces of dandelion fluff. These filigrees add a beauty that doesn’t get in the way of Moore’s strumming and melodies, whether they’re angular or flowing, or both, as is the case with “Mina Loy”s descending drones. Beck also adds a trippy depth to Demolished Thoughts that is often breathtaking, particularly on “Circulation,” a tone poem about vinyl that grows from atonal acoustic riffing into a sound-world of sawing, strafing strings, and on “In the Silver Rain with a Paper Key”s meditative shimmer. This approach is a big change from Moore’s previous solo effort, the much more down-to-earth Trees Outside the Academy, which felt like a more distinct entity from Moores work with Sonic Youth. In some ways, Demolished Thoughts size and polish rivals anything he’s done with them, and it’s hard not to hear echoes of the band on several of these songs. “Benediction” opens the album with the kind of pastoral ruminations Moore has been dabbling in since Washing Machine, albeit given an extra glow thanks to the hypnotic layers of percussion, keyboards, and strings woven throughout. Meanwhile, “Orchard Street”s stream-of-consciousness evocation of New York feels like it’s just down the block from Murray St. Of course, it’s hardly bad or surprising that Moore’s work resembles itself, especially not when the results are this compelling. | ||
 | Album: 26 of 38 Title: YOKOKIMTHURSTON Released: 2012-09-25 Tracks: 6 Duration: 1:00:35 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover | 1 I Missed You Listening (09:58) 2 Running the Risk (09:38) 3 I Never Told You, Did I? (07:04) 4 Mirror Mirror (09:45) 5 Lets Get There (09:34) 6 Early in the Morning (14:36) |
| YOKOKIMTHURSTON : Allmusic album Review : Like many valuable artists, Yoko Ono has long been a polarizing force, equally famous and controversial in circles of art and music. YOKOKIMTHURSTON is a collaborative effort between Ono and two of Sonic Youths lead creative forces, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. Though the trio worked together before this album, it marks the continuation of Gordon and Moores creative work together following the end of their 27-year-long marriage earlier in 2012. The six pieces on YOKOKIMTHURSTON are almost all extended meditations, but they seek out different realms of the avant-garde spectrum to inhabit. Tracks like "I Missed You Listening" and "Lets Get There" blend the dark guitar noise experimentation of the Sonic Youth contributors with Onos tortured vocalizations. "Running the Risk" begins with a spoken word poetry collage from the voices of all three performers, eventually introducing caustic clean guitar sounds as Ono continues to offer Fluxus-styled word fragments and wordless vocal noises, eventually joined by Gordon. The atmosphere is dark and foreboding throughout most of the albums tracks. The trio explores the cross section of minimal guitar ambience, vocal improvisation, and poetry on "I Never Told You, Did I?," ending up in a badlands somewhere between the Halloween-themed moodiness of Sonic Youths Bad Moon Rising and Onos work on albums like Fly. The mood is loose and improvisatory for most of the set, and offers less to latch on sonically than it does a tense but somehow reassuring mood. The albums strongest point comes in "Mirror Mirror," as Fahey-esque acoustic guitar drones provide a pastoral backdrop for Onos letter to herself and Gordons reverberated grunts. The dark sprawl of "Early in the Morning" recalls ESP-Disk artist Patty Waters extended and horrified take on "Black Is the Color of My True Loves Hair" with Onos pained syllables being dragged over Moores damaged guitar scratches. The pieces are unquestionably noisy avant-garde excursions into raw sound, and thusly wont appeal to even most Sonic Youth fans, but those fans are used to this kind of atonal sidetracking from the band. This type of collaboration runs the risk of very quickly becoming an excuse for like-minded peers to hang out and jam slightly, but YOKOKIMTHURSTON feels more focused and risk-taking than some weekend distraction between friends. Sonic Youth have never shied away from releasing indulgent noise jams in the name of art for arts sake, but this album ranks above the best of their non-rock experimentation, and adds a new dimension, with both Gordon and Moore stepping back to serve as supporting noisemakers for Onos one-of-a-kind voice. | ||
 | Album: 27 of 38 Title: The Only Way to Go Is Straight Through Released: 2013-04-20 Tracks: 2 Duration: 44:14 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 NYC - The Stone - July 14th, 2012 (21:15) 2 Brooklyn, NY - Public Assembly - October 17th, 2012 (22:59) |
 | Album: 28 of 38 Title: "@" Released: 2013-09-24 Tracks: 7 Duration: 55:12 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 6th Floor Walk Up, Waiting (12:25) 2 Jazz Laundromat (04:58) 3 Dawn Escape (09:39) 4 Her Sheets (04:19) 5 Soiled, Luscious (06:12) 6 Strange Neighbor (09:45) 7 For Derek and Evan (07:54) |
 | Album: 29 of 38 Title: The Best Day Released: 2014-10-21 Tracks: 8 Duration: 50:22 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Speak to the Wild (08:30) 2 Forevermore (11:15) 3 Tape (05:54) 4 The Best Day (04:31) 5 Detonation (02:56) 6 Vocabularies (04:31) 7 Grace Lake (06:53) 8 Germs Burn (05:52) |
| The Best Day : Allmusic album Review : Though his discography is littered with dozens of explorations in noise, improv side projects, and collaborations with other fringe-dwelling artists, Sonic Youth main man Thurston Moores most visible solo offerings are spare and often with years between them. The moody guitar rock daydream of 1995s Psychic Hearts didnt see a proper follow-up until 2007s Trees Outside the Academy. The Beck-produced 2011 effort Demolished Thoughts was decidedly more subdued, offering up whisper-thin acoustic folk and a more toned-down take on the type of instrumental experimentation Moore began crafting with Sonic Youth back in the early 80s. The Best Day stands as the next major chapter in Moores body of song-friendly solo work and returns to his signature songwriting style and meditative, sprawling guitar rock deconstruction. The album begins with bell-like guitar harmonics on "Speak to the Wild," but immediately launches into a lurching, creepy rhythm and building tension, recalling some of the more eerie moments of the Sonic Youth catalog circa Dirty or Murray Street. The lengthy, clattering "Forevermore" immediately follows the eight-plus-minute opening track, stretching The Best Days first third over just two songs and setting up a rolling, mysterious backdrop of repetitive, lingering guitar wails for Moores distant poetic lyrical wordplay. Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley plays on most of the record, adding a relentlessly simple but unignorable propulsive element to the tunes. There are dips into spellbinding acoustics on tunes like "Vocabularies" and "Tape," as well as driving punk on the sneery "Detonation." The Best Day comes nearly 20 years after Moores official solo debut, Psychic Hearts, but the minimal, pushy rhythm and guitar interplay of "Germs Burn" and noisy clouds of feedback that break down "Grace Lake" could have fit nicely on that album. Thats not to say hes simply been retreading ideas since the mid-90s. The swaggering blues wobble of the title track and witchy acoustics that pop up throughout the album are all relatively new territory, but when Moore hits his stride with strange, dreamlike fits of guitar chaos, unconventional changes, and unflinching rhythms, all the elements of his very singular style come into full focus. While the newer additions to Thurstons 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. | ||
 | Album: 30 of 38 Title: The Rust Within Their Throats Released: 2014-12-02 Tracks: 2 Duration: 27:46 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover | 1 Side A (12:40) 2 Side B (15:06) |
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 | Album: 35 of 38 Title: Rock n Roll Consciousness Released: 2017-04-28 Tracks: 5 Duration: 42:54 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover | 1 Exalted (11:53) 2 Cusp (06:33) 3 Turn On (10:17) 4 Smoke of Dreams (06:04) 5 Aphrodite (08:07) |
| Rock n Roll Consciousness : Allmusic album Review : Reunited with his backing band for The Best Day -- My Bloody Valentine bassist Deb Googe, Nøught guitarist James Sedwards, and longtime drummer Steve Shelley, as well as poet/songwriter Radieux Radio -- Thurston Moore delves even deeper into that albums contemplative, redemptive side on Rock N Roll Consciousness. On songs like the bold yet reverent "Cusp," Moore and company explore spiritual, sexual, and emotional healing on a mystical level. With two tracks stretching beyond the ten-minute mark, Rock N Roll Consciousness songs are consistently longer than Sonic Youths output, but theyre not just expanded; theyre heightened. The band locks in on the most transporting aspects of Moores music, allowing his deadpan vocals to be the eye of the of the storms surrounding him. Though his delivery gives lyrics like "She is the future and the prophetess" an extra dose of cool, his words mostly function to usher in different movements within each song, which showcase the bands interplay and star turns. Sedwards work on the New York City love letter "Smoke of Dreams" and "Turn On" (possibly the most Sonic Youth-like track here) reaffirms what a worthy foil he is to Moore. Meanwhile, the albums bookends underscore how impressive the band is as a unit: "Exalted" begins the album with its most varied track, as it moves from hypnotic harmonics to doomy, metal-inspired passages before drifting off on tightly woven guitars, while "Aphrodite" closes it with a standout performance from the rhythm section and some of Moore and Sedwards most unearthly guitar tones. Another fine addition to his solo work, Rock N Roll Consciousness proves that Moores search for enlightenment through noise remains vital. | ||
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