PURE POP FOR SONIC PEOPLE
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Sonic Youth have carved a career out of swarming clouds of blistered feedback, beautiful dissonance, oblique pointed lyrics and a take-no-prosoners approach to creating industrial age soundscapes.As they have grown and refined their vision their sound has gradually drifted towards the mainstream.Their influence can be sensed in so much of today's sound as the ever-shifting mainstream has inched closer.Perhaps only within the context of all the journeys through howling blizzard storms of psychic meltdowns, rave-ups, rants, and sound sculptures can **Rather Ripped** be considered a pop record, but it is. It is.This is pop music from the sonicsphere, short catchy tunes, concise, tuneful in a typically angular way.Needless to say, hard core fans were somewhat disheartened. While we didn't feel it was a sell out, some felt it was an unnecessary reach-out. We could have told them,....The Youth is not for everyone, and they shouldn't try to be.
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dansemcabre, I wish the kind of music you describe here were more often as eloquent and poetic on some level as your description itself is. The audience for gnarly and gangly sounds grows steadily. The human brain is truly resilient.