Sonic Youth – Murray Street [LP]

Limited vinyl LP pressing. 2002 album by the alt/experimental-rock pioneers. Named after the New York street where their studio was situated – and where a plane engine landed on September 11, 2001 – Murray Street is potent, accessible, daring, and often obliteratingly lovely. For a start, the first three songs (“The Empty Page, ” “Disconnection Notice, ” and “Rain On Tin”) easily rank with the highlights of SY’s previous 15 albums. Obliquely melancholic, tuneful but unorthodox, all are enriched by great cascades of intricate three-guitar noise. Murray Street was the first album by the band to feature Jim O’Rourke as an official fifth member to bolster the group’s sound.

Tracklist:

1. The Empty Page
2. Disconnection Notice
3. Karen Revisited
4. Rain on Tin
5. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
6. Plastic Sun
7. Sympathy for the Strawberry

UPC: 602547491824
Label: Geffen Records
Release Date: 7.15.16
Format: Vinyl