SONIC YOUTH - Confusion Is Sex (Lp Incl. Download)


Sonic Youth

LP (100g)

$52.00

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Date of release: Nov 08 2016


Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered reissue. Originally slated to be a seven-inch single to follow up their self-titled debut, Sonic Youth 's Confusion Is Sex blossomed into the band's first album: a brain-bludgeoning, completely fried endeavor of dissonance and disarray, a perfect soundtrack for running from a chain-wielding gang near the SIN Club. This was the sound of 1983 New York City: nothing like London where punks were starting to scrub their faces and sounds to get on Top of the Pops, and nothing like the jangly roots of college radio rock starting to formulate in Athens, Georgia. It sounded like no one else on Earth, for that matter. The raw, Wharton Tiers 8-track production is dark, the Kim Gordon-scrawled cover figure art of Thurston Moore is dark, Lee Ranaldo 's back cover photo-collage and Catherine Ceresole 's crumpled-xeroxed images that adorned the inside are dark. It's an album that moves Sonic Youth forward from their first EP almost by devolving backwards into true ugly, lo-fi primitivity. The bare-boned arsenal of junkpile guitars and implementation of alternate tunings was growing, and so were the songs that matched the individual attributes of each instrument: certain ones groan and growl a specific way that the band started to realize itself could become the compositional germ of a song. Herein is the threshold of a new explosion of the band's creativity, replacing the comparatively cleaner buzz of the Sonic Youth EP with guitars that spew fractured, uglier chunks of sound everywhere, held down by menacing minimalist basslines and the brutal-yet-controlled metronomic drumming. While it's confrontationalism might have put off some critics, time has rewarded Confusion with a truly distinctive air and atmosphere in the Sonic discography, enough to have Moore declare it his fave along with the band's swan-song The Eternal.

Tracklisting:
1.(she's In A) Bad Mood
2.Protect Me You
3.Freezer Burn/i Wanna Be Your Dog
4.Shaking Hell
5.Inhuman
6.The World Looks Red
7.Confusion Is Next
8.Making The Nature Scene
9.Lee Is Free

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SONIC YOUTH - Confusion Is Sex (Lp Incl. Download) (LP)
Cat No: GOO022LP
Barcode: 787996802213
Packaging: LP (100g)
SKU 4774249
Barcode # 787996802213
Artist Sonic Youth
Artist/Author SONIC YOUTH
Shipping weight 0.6140kg
Format LP (100g)

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