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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Label: Sonic Youth / Syr Catalog: Music Release date: 1999-11-16 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Format: Enhanced Ean: 0787996900421 Upc: 787996900421  Tip: compare prices with similar classical music CDs |
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 Written on December 8, 1999 Summary: Re Experimental Worst purchase of the year. No new ground broken, so calling it experimental would be a mistake. Re experimental maybe. Nurse With Wound (and oh so many others) has been producing truly intriguing and bizzare minimalist experimental music for years. Maybe I'm jaded, but there was nothing even remotely interesting to me on either of these discs. A sad copycat attempt from a band who hasn't had any decent new material in years. Keep the taps flowing and be well!  Written on December 6, 1999 Summary: Breathing room. I have collected most of Sonic Youth's albums over the years, and this is presently my favorite. Featuring music composed by the likes of John Cage and Takehisa Kosugi as well as Yoko Ono and Steve Reich, the long tracks massage and spark. Unlike the usually in-your-face brashness that makes sonic youth sonic youth, this album features wide spaces of repetitive sounds that layer, merge and then gradually taper away. This is truly an innovative album, unlike any other from Sonic Youth. Few vocals except for Kim Gordon's occasional spoken (shouted?) word. I love it and haven't taken it off the turntable since I got it.  Written on December 4, 1999 Summary: The "other"Sonic Youth It's funny, I recall how six years ago I thought Sonic Youth was just "this cool skate-punk band" when I purchased "Dirty." Little did I know that they would later have more in common with Sun Ra and Stockhausen than Reagan Youth. I have to argue that SYR 4 is perhaps their most surreal and ear-baffling work to date. On most of its tracks, their trademark ecstatic-alien guitar noise makes more sense as electro-aucostic pieces and even folk music for our bewildered information age. Examplary tracks are the John Cage covers and "Never Played a Note for Percussion." While it does have its misfires(the room-clearing Reich cover and "Edges"-nearly summarizes what many people love to hate about avant-garde music,)overall, I have to say that this album will be closely studied and appreicated for quite some time...much longer than the Warped tour. Written on November 21, 1999 Summary: why goodbye? because. is someone has to say such a corny thing like "goodbye 20th century", it better be SY. and if there's one way to do it, that it's this way. noisy, yeah. but look at it - in ultra violently jerky "Edges" things flow and jump and appear out of nowhere and disappear like a fractal image being created randomly. anyone NOT interested in their next "real" album after this? Written on November 17, 1999 Summary: sy's exclamation point for the millenium fascinating... it's a look forward and backward. it reminds me a lot of the spaciousness of sound that the band achieved with bad moon rising, although a lot less disciplined. i remember seeing a clip on vh1 once with lee ranaldo talking about city sounds and how he loved to open his window and listen to the rhythms of everyday street noises. this album captures it beautifully, with its random occurences of guitar squawks, cymbal crashes, and syllables. although i have already dismissed some of the songs (the nascent "edges" among them), i have a feeling that this one pays off on each successive listen. "pendulum music" and "six for new time" are damn near highpoints of sy's career- it's the kind of pretention that they have always reached for. this time it works better in execution than theory. if this is their millenial exit, i can't wait to see what they're going to come up with for an entrance. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 1999-11-16 | 1998-03-24 | 2000-09-05 | 1997-10-07 | 1997-06-10 | 2005-12-06 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Format | Enhanced | EP | - | EP, Limited Edition | EP | EP |
| Ean | 0787996900421 | 0787996900322 | 0787996900520 | 0787996900223 | 0787996000121 | 0787996900629 |
| Upc | 787996900421 | 787996900322 | 787996900520 | 787996900223 | 787996000121 | 787996900629 |
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