Sonic Youth - In/Out/In

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Label:

Three Lobed Recordings

Genre:

Alternative

Product No.:
ATLR 134
UPC: 634457078840
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Unheard sonic rarities from the band's 2000-2010 era!

Essential for Sonic Youth hardcore fans and fans of instrumental rock!

Jacket designed by D. Norsen, plus insert with essay by Brian Turner

Bandcamp-enabled album download included

OBI strip with essay by Tyler Wilcox (Aquarium Drunkard)

" ...Sonic Youth's unique place in rock history as a kind of living glue between late-70s post-punk and 90s
alternative, 80s DIY indie and 00s net-age, tight pop and improvised noise, hard punk and hippie jams, etc.,
is secure..." Marc Masters, Pitchfork

In mulling over their career, it's staggering to realize that Sonic Youth not only delivered a healthy slab of releases as a unit but also have a myriad of shelved material still waiting for broader ears. While the group's current Bandcamp abode lays out a generous amount of it, a bunch more has yet to surface.

In/Out/In ably delivers a new slab of mostly-unheard Sonic righteousness, with a scope on the post 2000-era band in especially zoned/exploratory regions.

In/Out/In reveals their last decade to be still heavy on the roll-tape and bug-out Sonic Youth. Not all recorded in one session but rather spread out over 2000-2010, the sequencing here is especially well thought out.

Opening with the 2008 "Basement Contender" we get a super-unfiltered glimpse of the band at Kim and Thurston's Northampton house creating a gentle springboard of Venusian choogle, with phased Lee lappings at cascading Thurston figures forming a simmering soundtrack. "Machine" offers another instrumental track from The Eternal sessions and is a steamy exercise in stop-start rhythmic grunt amidst a jungle of chiming and upward spiraling chord progressions. We've also got the extended score offering "Social Static" from the Chris Habib/Spencer Tunick film of the same name, draping white sheets of noise over your head then descending into a gauzy maw of car-alarm guitars and ambient-yet-disruptive turbulence that eventually subsides into a smoky coda.

Two more tracks round out the set both culled from a Three Lobed box set of various artists from 2011 called Not the Spaces You Know, But Between Them: "In & Out" quietly resembles Can in a cave with dripping stalactites of Kim's wordless tone rumble and was recorded at a soundcheck in Pomona California and their home Hoboken turf in 2010. "Out & In" from 2000 was done in their late downtown NYC studio and serves to close out this LP's last 12 minutes as a reminder of what they got up to with O'Rourke there. More gentle time shift chord framework erupts into molten fury before mutating into the sonic equivalent of a slowly collapsing star.

Casting an audio net over the entire instrumental/outtake oeuvre of Sonic Youth's long history isn't something easily committed to a single release without a doubt. Hearing these tracks in comparison to, say, 1986's Made In USA material shows the massive leaps they took over the years. ... Enjoy this capsule.



Side A
1. Basement Contender
2. In & Out
3. Machine

Side B
1. Social Static
2. Out & In

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