SONIC YOUTH — Sonic Nurse

"After twenty-three years of explosive creativity Sonic Youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since the genre-breaking Daydream Nation. Nurse is the nineteenth long player by the New York City supernova, an action explosion Time magazine has already tagged as "Sonic Youth's most adventurous and soul-stirring release to date, by a goddamn country mile." Ten songs of American beauty and sonic death: on "Pattern Recognition" Kim Gordon takes Justin Timberlake's hand and sticks it in a tendon-shredding meat grinder; they gay marriage the hell out of religious zealot war pigs Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush and Ashcroft with the meditative "Peace Attack"; Bare Trees-era Fleetwood Mac jams with Jealous Again-era Black Flag on the heart-pounding "Unmade Bed" and "I Love You Golden Blue"; the core reactor awesomeness of "Paper Cup Exit" reduces such legends as Led Zeppelin and Yes to just so much British schoolboy whimpering." [label info]