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Sonic Youth Format: Audio CD
4.7 out of 5 stars
181 ratings
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This is a latter-day Sonic Youth album worth hearing if you love their guitar sound. My favorite SY album since their great early trilogy of EVOL/SISTER/DAYDREAM NATION is
A THOUSAND LEAVES
(see my review), which is their most psychedelic, with great guitars. SONIC NURSE approaches that level of greatness, with plenty of awesome dissonant guitar from Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo. It took me awhile to hear it, but I'm glad I finally did -- SONIC NURSE is better than the previous MURRAY STREET, which was a bit too neat and tidy by comparison. Here the songs are awash on a sea of squall. Kim Gordon is a major presence, with four songs: Pattern Recognition, Kim Gordon & the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream, Dude Ranch Nurse, and I Love You Golden Blue. The latter two are especially impressive. Lee gets his standard one track, Paper Cup Exit, and as usual he makes the best of his limited time -- it is yet another Beat hipster epic. The other five tracks are Thurston's: Unmade Bed, Dripping Dream, Stones, New Hampshire, and Peace Attack. Also as usual, Thurston's songs are the center of gravity of the album. His singing and lyrics continue in the mellower, hippy-esque mode he has tended toward at least since A THOUSAND LEAVES, and that's fine because it is counter-balanced by the harsher-edged guitar sound that stamps SY as a product of the '80s and not the '60s. I saw Sonic Youth live in Prospect Park in Brooklyn in the summer of 2009, and it was a great show -- I'm glad to have seen them again before they broke up.
Sonic Youth. Either you love em or hate em. I love em, but can recognize that many of the albums they have put out haven't been too good. Everything they've done I compare to "Daydream", one of the most influential albums in modern rock. Whether that's fair or not, I'm not sure, but that's the way it is. "Daydream" came in my youth, and it felt like mine and many other's soundtrack to their lives. I've been hoping and hoping that one day they'd find that dark place again, the place that only "Daydream" can take me to. To my complete astonishment, they have found it again in "Sonic Nurse". Don't get me wrong, it isn't "Daydream Nation", but it is so close it's amazing. The first track absolutely hooks you, and when you move further into the album, you're continually paid off for years of hoping they'd find this sound again. I won't review the whole album, even though I've listened to it 6 times in 2 days, because I just do not want to tarnish your experience with it. A lot of "punk" rock these days is not even related to punk rock. This is real. This is one purchase you will absolutely not regret. I can't say that for many bands. Enjoy.
I love this album, and overall, it's a fantastic sounding vinyl. I'm giving it five stars on those merits alone, and because I can't bring myself to give it less.. even though. Yes, even though both copies I received had issues on Pattern Recognition. It sounded like distortion, maybe something else, that would come and go throughout the song. My first copy was actually better than the second, but both exhibited the problem. Maybe it was just a poor batch, as I've heard nothing but good things about this pressing, and every other song sounded great. I'll try again later I suppose.
I'm someone who thinks that the band's three CDs previous to this one range between bad and not especially good. But, I do like this one. The songs are structures and there's less the feel of loose lazy strumming. They worked up some good songs that have a nice clean rock sound. It sounds to me like a culmination of what they'd been doing for a while. The two records after this one were even more focused, and I like them even better. This one grew on me slowly, but it did grow on me. In the end it's a nice slightly ambitious record by a confident and adventurous band.
I have listened to Sonic Youth since the early Eighties (I am way older than they are; I attended the Warsaw Stones' concert on March 13, 1967). "Sonic Nurse" is a total masterpiece, on par with "Daydream Nation" and "Washing Machine". The highpoint of the album is "Dripping Dream", a beautiful song, perhaps even more beautiful than the "Diamond Sea" from "Washing Machine", if that is possible. Rock or pop or whatever you call it just does not come any better. And the utter urgency of the first song, "Pattern Recognition". This is just pure perfection. I am so grateful to Sonic Youth. They help make my life worth living.
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I first purchased this album on CD during the first week of release. The edition I have includes 'Kim Chords' as a UK bonus track. I say all this to identify the particular CD I have as the sound quality is pretty dull and lacks texture. After years of indecision, I saw an offer of a vinyl pressing on Amazon that was not too expensive (I'd much rather spend my limited amount of pennies discovering new music.) However the sound quality is a revelation by comparison to what I've been used to hearing on this album. Jim O'Rourke's excellent mix is as beautifully crafted as on his own albums and this pressing reveals all the texture and expression one could hope for. For some reason side 3 (New Hampshire and Paper Cup Exit) suffers from quite a bit of surface noise which does get in the way a bit, but the rest of the pressing is excellent. All in all, I am one very happy customer. Oh, and this is a damn good record.
One of the best albums, from one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Nuff said
5.0 out of 5 stars
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Very pleasant album all round .. Sonic Youth being chilled ..
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2004 album & 2nd as a 5 piece. Epic jams and experimental grooves from one of the greatest bands ever.
If all Sonic Youth albums pretty much sound alike, as skeptics grumble, some Sonic Youth albums definitely sound more alike than others. And Sonic Nurse is one of those. Practically Sonic Youth concentrate, the disc manages to sound like a distillation of the band's career and a promise that they can keep doing this forever. Sonic Youth has trimmed away its more direct hooks, while also curbing its artier indulgences. That isn't to say that melody or noise is absent--especially when it's Kim Gordon's turn to rant on cuts such as "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream"--but that these elements are carefully balanced and defer to an overall sound that's richer than ever now that newest member Jim O'Rourke has fully integrated himself into the band's gestalt. The mood may be pastoral and domestic, but often, as on "Peace Attack," it's grounded in an undercurrent of concern. --Keith Harris
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How? It's a question elicited by any great album, but one that accompanied Sonic Youth's 2002 return to glory, Murray Street , in particular, and will likely arise in response to any remotely decent effort from the group herein. It might have dawned on some fans only after hearing Murray Street that Sonic Youth's mean age was then roughly 45, and that the group arguably hadn't produced a record of such caliber since they were in their late 20s. And while age is certainly unavoidable, as sensitive fifty-something poets constantly remind us, it shouldn't come as any great surprise that the band still pack some alternately-tuned potency in their aging physiognomies: There are manifold examples of musicians in most every genre, besides younglings rock and hip-hop, who have continued playing, if not composing, masterfully, well into their 70s.
Like the best jazz musicians, Sonic Youth have turned their love for experimental rock into a habit; perhaps more so than any other band, they've transcended the temporality of quality output in rock music. While bands like the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead continue to take the stage in a larkish clamber, Sonic Youth are still alive in the studio, where the process of making music is somewhat more draining than regurgitating old hits every once in a well-publicized while. With centenarianism becoming more of an improbable reality and less of a tall tale, it's no longer inconceivable that rock composers might thrive into their latter days, especially now that the relatively young genre has been given time to produce a few elder masters. In short, Sonic Youth aren't an exception; they're a pioneer example of a nascent rule.
That said, while Sonic Nurse isn't quite as strong as its predecessor, it's equally as imbued with instrumental dexterity and impressively coherent ideas. Unlike Murray Street , the album isn't so much an expansion of form as a return to it: Here, Sonic Youth harken back to the noisome atmospherics of their late-80s work, only handing it a more crystalline production treatment that smacks of more recent releases like A Thousand Leaves . Whether the implications of the line are intentional or not is difficult to say, but when, on "Paper Cup Exit", Lee Ranaldo sings, "It's later than it seems," the band seem to be keenly aware of their age and relevance. That self-awareness, both of an appreciably long canon and the four lives it has traversed, makes Sonic Nurse all the more remarkable.
Throughout their career, Sonic Youth have indulged in as much avant-garde experimentation as they have ground out formal studio albums. If anything, the lesson taught by mishaps such as the infamous NYC Ghosts & Flowers is that Sonic Youth are best at being themselves. Fortunately, that "self" is an enormously vibrant and sophisticated entity, capable of evoking a broad range of moods and tones, and continually learning from its mistakes. As atrocious as NYC Ghosts & Flowers was, they never repeated its missteps, and for that it can be conveniently forgotten. Conversely, when the group hits their stride, they know to run with it, as they do here, swimmingly riding the ample momentum generated by Murray Street .
"Pattern Recognition" opens, touching down on a well-trodden playing field of heady, arpeggiated riffage. After a brief, almost proggy intro, the song descends into a perilous odd-time build redolent of "Candle", as Kim Gordon brays "you're the one" in wontedly Daydream fashion, forgoing the bloodless beat poetry whining that often made her presence an annoyance in recent years. 16 years later, her pipes are still as seductively smoke-tinged as they were on "Kissability", and the opener marks the first of several pleasant appearances by Gordon on Nurse . "Unmade Bed", the record's only sub-four-minute endeavor, recalls the nocturnal second half of Murray Street , casting beacons of beautifully melodic guitar as it builds to a gloriously intertwined climax. As with many of the band's best songs, it takes a few listens for the riffs to sink in, but once they have, they're indelible.
Dynamically, however, not every track on Sonic Nurse is as striking as the band have proved themselves capable. Murray Street 's "Rain on Tin" was a euphoric rollercoaster ride that seemed to capsulize to the band's entire career. "Stones", perhaps this album's closest parallel to that song, erupts with an insurgent guitar melody after a rocky climb, and features more than its fair share of strong riffs. Yet, while doubtless a strong number, the track isn't nearly as dramatic as career highlights like "Washing Machine" and "Expressway to Yr Skull". Additionally, "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Handcream" is a more traditional Kim Gordon screed that extends about two minutes too long in its monotonous din to be as effective as Murray Street 's similar "Plastic Sun".
However, while those tracks do belabor the flow of the record slightly, their impotency is more accurately attributable to Sonic Nurse 's questionable sequencing. While many of these songs exemplify the band in top form, they're sometimes inhibited by the record's somewhat scatterbrained narrative arch. "Peace Attack", in particular, suffers from mishandling. Played in isolation, the track is clever and wistful, but in its role as closing song, it feels awkwardly contrived and anticlimactic. Meanwhile, "Pattern Recognition", another one of the band's finest recent tracks, seems too bold an opening statement for this deeply cogitative collection. And unlike Murray Street , which was anchored by the towering middle track, "Karen Revisited", this issue lacks a similar axis to corral the disparate tones and give them direction.
Of course, considering these minor bones of contention, Sonic Nurse is hardly what one might call a disappointment. "The Dripping Dream" adheres to the familiar tension/release/jam formula typified by "Rain on Tin", but manages to keep fresh with a reliably brilliant guitar apex before receding into a hazy wash that recalls the deliquescent waning minutes of "The Sprawl". "I Love Golden Blue" features a formless, protracted intro that points to the band's one-time relationship with seminal avant-garde composer/no-wave icon Glenn Branca. And "Peace Attack", despite its placement, is quietly poignant in contrast with erstwhile monoliths such as "Trilogy" and "The Diamond Sea".
Even the staunchest pundits should find something to like on Sonic Nurse , while steadfast devotees are well accounted for by the record's sheer canonical breadth. Though its ultimate placement in the band's legacy is a debate waiting to happen, Sonic Nurse is certainly on a plane with some of Sonic Youth's better work. Indeed, it is later than it seems. And for a band to live up to that proclamation on its 19th album is awesome.
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