Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star

Universal Music Enterprises' year-long initiative to reissue on vinyl the pioneering art-punk band's entire nine-album DGC/Geffen catalog concludes with the October 2016 release of Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star (1994), A Thousand Leaves (1998) and NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000).

Like their predecessors, all albums have been remastered from the original stereo analog master tapes and will be available on both high-grade "back to black" vinyl complete with a digital download card for 320kbps MP4 AAC audio as well as in a variety of HD audio formats.

Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star was the band's eighth studio album and follow-up to Dirty." Buoyed by the anxiety-inducing pop-meets-noise classic, "Bull In The Heather," the album peaked at No. 34 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking the band's highest U.S. chart position up until then. Alternative Press noted the album's anti-commercial aesthetic "doesn't get much cooler than this," while Rolling Stone called the record "quietly confident, more ambitious and weirder than Dirty." The Los Angeles Times concluded Sonic Youth "transcends the confining roles of pretentious art-rock band or palatable alternative group, and instead offers a penetrating album that's all its own."