#627 Sonic Youth - EVOL

You can't talk about Sonic Youth without talking about noise. Dissonance and racket are at the heart of their MO, though their exact relationship with the guitar and the noises it can make has changed over time. Here is their first attempt to make an actual rock album, as the band takes wet, leaden lumps of noise and shapes them into ten vaguely song-shaped objects. It is clumsy and primitive, less interesting than something noisier, less listenable than what Sonic Youth would do in the following years, compelling mostly as a history lesson in the band's progression 3/5