#2625 Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

Not the most listenable Sonic Youth album around. Those calling it a miserable slog aren't wrong. But more so than a lot of their later, more-arch outings, you hear a band making the racket they need to, spooling out something seething and simmering -- and at the last second, unleashing all that energy on the final track. A weirdly tight, explosive, admirable little record 4/5