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SONIC YOUTH - The Eternal

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Matador OLE-829 Release Year: 2009 Note: their 16th album - *‘The Eternal’ not only marks Sonic Youth’s return to the independent label sphere (titles on their own SYR label excepted) after a long association with Geffen, but more importantly, ranks as one of their more inspired efforts in a 28 year career...* Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info "Sonic Youth’s 16th album, ‘The Eternal’, will be released on double vinyl, compact disc, and digital album by Matador Records on June 9. Produced by John Agnello and the band, ‘The Eternal’ not only marks Sonic Youth’s return to the independent label sphere (titles on their own SYR label excepted) after a long association with Geffen, but more importantly, ranks as one of their more inspired efforts in a 28 year career. Recorded through November and December of last year at the band’s Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, NJ, ‘The Eternal’ features many firsts for a Sonic Youth album, including a number of shared vocals between Kim, Thurston, and Lee, and the studio debut of former Pavement/Dustdevils bassist Mark Ibold, a member of Sonic Youth’s touring band for the past few years. The band’s current extracurricular activities are as always, quite varied. The Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany is now hosting the touring museum exhibition SONIC YOUTH ETC.: SENSATIONAL FIX, which focuses on the band’s multidisciplinary work since the band’s formation in 1981, including their collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians. Kim Gordon launches a clothing line, Mirror/Dash, at Urban Outfitters on February 16, and is showing at The Armory Show in NYC March 5-8. Lee Ranaldo, with co-conspirator Leah Singer, just opened installations at the Konsthall in Stockholm and the CNEAI in Paris, and he has a piece in the travelling exhibition “Bad Moon Rising 3″, currently at Boots Contemporary Art Space in St. Louis. A Beck/Sonic Youth split 7″ is being released by Matador on April 18 for Record Store Day. And the band recently collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (along with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and mixed-media sound composer Takehisa Kosugi) on a work celebrating, and being performed for, Cunningham’s 90th birthday on April 16 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Upcoming SY shows include April gigs in Austria and Germany (including the closing of SENSATIONAL FIX in Dusseldorf) and May 16 at the No Fun Festival in Brooklyn. They will be touring throughout the summer in support of ‘The Eternal’. Of ‘The Eternal’, Matador’s Gerard Cosloy says, “We’ve not had a record in our recent history that’s been the subject of nearly as much speculation and anticipation. Suffice to say we’re pretty amazed at the way the band delivered something this neoteric while still sounding like, well, themselves. Less of a reinvention and perhaps more to do with a particularly awesome dozen songs.” Matador will shortly announce a Buy Early Get Now scheme for the album with some very interesting bonus material. Sonic Youth are: Steve Shelley Lee Ranaldo Kim Gordon Thurston Moore Mark Ibold Track listing: 1. Sacred Trickster 2. Anti-Orgasm 3. Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso) 4. Antenna 5. What We Know 6. Calming The Snake 7. Poison Arrow 8. Malibu Gas Station 9. Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn 10. No Way 11. Walkin Blue 12. Massage The History [label / website notes] www.matadorrecords.com Sie galten als die Blaupause einer Indie-Band, dabei veröffentlichten sie die meisten ihrer Alben bisher bei einem Major: Sonic Youth. Mit "The Eternal" genießt das Quartett um Kim Gordon und Thurston Moore seine neue Freiheit und veröffentlicht beim Label Matador. Die zwölf von John Agnello produzierten Songs klingen wie die Eckpfeiler der gesamten Sonic-Youth-Karriere: von den frühen No-Wave-Attacken über die radikalen Songstrukturen der 90er-Jahre bis zu den fokussierten zeitgemäßen Exkursionen. 1980 in der Kunst- und Postpunk-Szene New Yorks entstanden, wurden Sonic Youth schnell zum Aushängeschild der amerikanischen Undergroundszene. Schon immer suchten sie Anknüpfungspunkte an die Kunstszene, nicht zuletzt durch ihre Covergestaltung, die auf Werke von u. a. Gerhard Richter, Mike Kelley, Jeff Wall und Raymond Pettibon zurückgriff. Das Cover ihres 16. Albums "The Eternal" stammt vom Künstler und Gitarristen John Fahey (1939-2001). In der Kunsthalle Düsseldorf kuratierten Sonic Youth 2009 die Ausstellung "Sensetional Fix", die eine alternative Geschichte der zeitgenössischen Kultur erzählt.