Sonic Youth - Sonic Nurse

2LPs newly remastered from original stereo analog sources

Album download included for 320mbps MP4 AAC files

If all Sonic Youth albums pretty much sound alike, as skeptics grumble, some Sonic Youth albums definitely sound more alike than others. And Sonic Nurse is one of those. Practically Sonic Youth concentrate, the disc manages to sound like a distillation of the band's career and a promise that they can keep doing this forever. Sonic Youth has trimmed away its more direct hooks, while also curbing its artier indulgences. That isn't to say that melody or noise is absent — especially when it's Kim Gordon's turn to rant on cuts such as "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" — but that these elements are carefully balanced and defer to an overall sound that's richer than ever now that newest member Jim O'Rourke has fully integrated himself into the band's gestalt. The mood may be pastoral and domestic, but often, as on "Peace Attack," it's grounded in an undercurrent of concern.

Side 1

Pattern Recognition

Unmade Bed

Dripping Dream

Side 2

Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream

Stones

Dude Ranch Nurse

Side 3

New Hampshire

Paper Cut Exit

Side 4

I Love You Golden Blue

Peace Attack

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