Their music was steadily getting more structured with each album, however, and EVOL was only the most recent development on that front, with new drummer Steve Shelley completing the Sonic Youth lineup for the remainder of their time together. It wasn’t always so their first two albums, Confusion is Sex and Bad Moon Rising, clearly draw from New York’s no wave scene, and my thoughts on the scene are as follows: it’s either the most interesting thing to come out of New York that isn’t Broadway or Talking Heads, or it’s interesting only from an intellectual standpoint, and their first two LPs are most certainly the latter to my mind. At their best, their songwriting was among the most purposeful I’ve come across in noise rock, and I’ve yet to hear any other band that so carefully threaded the needle between atonality and melody. Sonic Youth are quite possibly the most important indie rock band whose name isn’t the Velvet Underground they’ve influenced Lord knows how many indie acts in the 90s, perhaps most famously Nirvana, and I can certainly see why. Review Summary: This album opened an expressway to my skull.
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