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The Eternal

Sonic Youth

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Customer Reviews

Noisy

I am still not sure how much I love this album if I am being honest. It is very melodic, catchy and even has standard song structures. But for me there is no real adventure, no exciting twists and turns and no beautiful noise induced guitar moments. Saying that there is a back catalogue of their albums where I can hear that, there is no point in them making the same album all the time. However I was hoping for greatness and instead I feel I got very good. At least this album will access a new generation who can then delve into their history and discover some old classics as well as new. I think I will have to live with the Eternal for a bit longer before I decide whether I love it or whether Iam just trying to convinve myself I love it.

Still good

There's nothing really new on this album that hasn't been heard already on previous SY albums, but that doesn't detract from the overall enjoyment. Its a good listen with some funky bass lines for a change, and the last track is a peach.

Still sounding brilliant

Sonic Youth have still got the ability to create fresh sounding material after all these years, definetly up there with the greats in terms of influence and pushing boundaries. A+++

Biography

Formed: 1981 in New York, NY

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Sonic Youth were one of the most unlikely success stories of underground American rock in the '80s. Where contemporaries R.E.M. and Hüsker Dü were fairly conventional in terms of song structure and melody, Sonic Youth began their career by abandoning any pretense of traditional rock & roll conventions. Borrowing heavily from the free-form noise experimentalism of the Velvet Underground and the Stooges, and melding it with a performance art aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk avant-garde,...
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