Sonic Youth - 2006 - The Destroyed Room [TQMP] torrent

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| Sonic Youth - 2006 - The Destroyed Room (B-Sides and Rarities) |::
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| Type / Quantity _________ CD (Compact Disc) (* 1) |
| Date Released ___________ 12th of December, 2006 |
| Genre(s) ________________ Alternative |
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| Important to Sonic Youth is the modern-day equivalent to the under- |
| ground/experimental rock scene they grew from. Yesterday\'s Theoretical |
| Girls and Swans leads to today\'s Hair Police, today\'s Wolf Eyes, |
| tomorrow\'s who-knows (Thurston knows, and has his eye on them for a |
| release on Ecstatic Peace). Sonic Youth seem intent on keeping in |
| spiritual touch with that stream of youthful creative energy, as well as |
| the world of cutting-edge art in general, even while being \"rock stars\" |
| releasing albums for a major corporation. Even going back to the band\'s |
| start they\'ve had twin pop culture/underground interests, and an |
| obsession with larger-than-life figures both countercultural and |
| completely mainstream. Their song title \"Total Trash\" could easily |
| denote both -- the outcasts and the pop stars (see Madonna, Britney |
| Spears, etc.). They\'re walking a line of their own, not between any |
| misperceived divide, but among several concurrent, but quite different, |
| sides of the art/popular culture continuum. |
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| Think of the basic Sonic Youth sound, even underneath their most direct |
| pop/rock singles (\"Dirty Boots\", \"100%\", much of their 2006 album Rather |
| Ripped), and it\'s sheets of guitar, played in an evocative way, using |
| noise as a graceful wall that\'s both a challenge and a force of beauty. |
| The element that carries through all the songs, wild and quiet, \"pop\" |
| and experimental, is not those moments when they\'re wailing on their |
| instruments but when they take that same energy and smooth it into a |
| super-charged dream-state. This is the invisible energy field tying |
| together those disparate worlds (\"rock songs\" and Goodbye 20th Century, |
| arena stages and art galleries, The Carpenters and Nautical Almanac), |
| and coursing through their discography. |
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| That background-generator sound is called to the front of the stage |
| here, on The Destroyed Room. The album opens with this in its purest |
| form: an edgy/pretty instrumental titled \"Fire Engine Dream\" which rides |
| one sound for an exhilarating 10 minutes. It\'s placed upfront so the |
| band can, as they write in the liner notes, \"see who\'s here and who\'s |
| not.\" It\'s a tone-setter, then, outlining the route the band is taking |
| throughout this 76-minute CD. That route is to explore the side of the |
| band interested in, as the liner notes also put it, \"blurring the lines |
| between composition and improvisation\", without leaning too far in one |
| direction (without, for example, the songs sounding completely like |
| \"ordinary\", composed songs, as they have on their most recent |
| albums).They\'re taking shards of pop melody and pushing them into an |
| improvisational/experimental direction, creating textures and ideas. |
| They\'re setting up a room and destroying it, so it\'s unstable but still |
| feels like a room, is both comfortable and dangerous. |
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| This is Sonic Youth\'s first Geffen release that heads in this direction |
| entirely. Erase that; it might be their first release in this direction, |
| as there\'s still a lingering melodic sheen here (lingering like a cloud) |
| that isn\'t present on most of their experimental, non-Geffen releases |
| (the SYR series, for example). Unlike most of those releases, this isn\'t |
| entirely instrumental, either, though it mostly is; three songs feature |
| vocals (Kim Gordon on two, Moore on one). The songs are not all of the |
| same style, either. Most are off-kilter mood-jams that rage and roll |
| with haunted beauty, but others are much different; the album as a whole |
| has variety within the adventure trip. |
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| The brief \"Razor Blade\" is a hushed Gordon sung letter over a strange |
| country & western mood, with steel guitar even. Gordon\'s other vocal |
| appearance is on the minimalist \"Blink\", where a skeletal framework sets |
| up a complex horror-film mood that\'s scary, but philosophical, lush, and |
| introspective in a way. \"Campfire\", filled with slithering electronic |
| sounds, was performed on a Groovebox machine, commissioned for the |
| Tannis Root/Grand Royal At Home With the Groovebox album. The jam \"Loop |
| Cat\" contains many bizarre, hard-to-pin-down sounds… though actually the |
| whole album is like that. Sonic Youth has always explored unusual |
| instrumental set-ups, figuring out different ways to get sounds from the |
| basic rock instruments. That\'s especially evident here, on an album |
| where several of the songs were \"accidents\": songs built by carving an |
| evocative side-trip out of an improvisational jam, or by taking a |
| particular theme or mood (having the film Two-Lane Blacktop in their |
| minds, for example) and following it wherever it leads them. |
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| The Destroyed Room is ostensibly a collection of \"B-Sides and Rarities\"; |
| that\'s the guise under which this was released to the marketplace, and |
| some of these songs have appeared before, on various-artists |
| compilations or in movie soundtracks. But it feels absolutely like one |
| album. It\'s built-from-leftovers genesis is similar to Tom Waits\' recent |
| acclaimed Orphans collection, but where that still feels like a randomly |
| generated batch of Waits songs, this feels like one cohesive collection. |
| It\'s remarkable, amazing even, how together this album is, how |
| everything fits into one overall statement, even while the 11 songs each |
| represent an off-road trip with its own singular intentions, or lack |
| thereof. In some ways it\'s one of Sonic Youth\'s most cohesive albums |
| even, as strange as that sounds to say. It\'s also one of their most |
| exciting. It sounds like the wellspring of their creative energy, like a |
| wild and naturally formed representation of the inherent elements of |
| their music, those that have made them influential and, in their |
| combination of pop/rock and experimental/artistic impulses, innovative. |
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| The final of The Destroyed Room\'s collected side-trips is the full, 26- |
| minute version of one of Sonic Youth\'s grandest pop/experimental |
| statements, Washing Machine\'s \"The Diamond Sea\". It\'s the right way to |
| end this collection, with a reminder that the band\'s Geffen Records |
| period has not been marked by compromise -- as fans feared back in 1990 |
| -- but by continued exploration, continually taking them in fresh |
| directions. Even as its technically a retread as much as a new release, |
| through its cohesive mood, and the exciting pieces that make up the |
| whole, The Destroyed Room is yet another fresh new statement, one that |
| shines brightly even within the complete, storied discography of Sonic |
| Youth. |
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| No. | Title | Duration |
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| 001 | Fire Engine Dream .................................... | 00h10m23s |
| 002 | Fauxhemians .......................................... | 00h04m05s |
| 003 | Razor Blade .......................................... | 00h01m08s |
| 004 | Blink ................................................ | 00h05m28s |
| 005 | Campfire ............................................. | 00h02m20s |
| 006 | Loop Cat ............................................. | 00h06m40s |
| 007 | Kim\'s Chords ......................................... | 00h06m02s |
| 008 | Beautiful Plateau .................................... | 00h03m08s |
| 009 | Three-Part Sectional Love Seat ....................... | 00h08m16s |
| 010 | Queen Anne Chair ..................................... | 00h05m38s |
| 011 | The Diamond Sea ...................................... | 00h25m49s |
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| Total Length ____________ 01h16m57s |
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