Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

In 2005, it was time for Sonic Youth to record a new record to bust out for 2006. Before they did, they revisited awesome Japan, toured the boroughs of New York, rollicked at the first Arthurfest in L.A. and released the special deluxe edition of GOO. After one final gnarl out in Brazil with The Flaming Lips, The Stooges and others, Mr. Jim O'Rourke decided to concentrate fulltime on his Japanese studies of language and film and SY was subsequently back to its OG nucleus of Kim-Thurston-Lee-Steve. Songs were written, Jim recommended engineer TJ Doherty and J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr) recommended mix engineer John Agnello and SY created the oddly titled Rather Ripped. The whole deal was recorded in the waning hours of '05 into the dawn sunshine of '06 at the venerable Sear Sound studios in NYC's fading theatre district. This is straight-up Sonic Youth field on fire, with a compact potency of rock 'n' roll enlightenment.