Sonic Youth
Dirty

THE REVIEW

Approaching the listening of a Sonic Youth album is always an unpredictable experience. Although the trademark remains well-rooted, the band’s stylistic and sonic innovation attitude brings new elements with each release. Dirty is an exceptional album, a classic in the extensive discography of Sonic Youth and undoubtedly their most representative record of the nineties.

The first ten seconds of the opening track "100%" and its impactful "centrifuged" distortion (allow me) are enough to realize the band is in top form.

But among the 15 tracks on the album, it's hard to find one that isn't noteworthy: the relentless rhythm of "Swimsuit Issue," Kim Gordon's adenoidal scream in "Orange Rolls Angel's Split," extreme and sharp, almost vomited out, the psychedelic excursion of "Wish Fulfillment" and again the simple and incisive sequence of three chords in "Youth Against Fascism" where Ian MacKaye's guitar (read: Fugazi) is added, the incredibly fast "Nic Fit," pure hardcore, the authentic sound trip of "Theresa's Sound-World."

Noises, instruments, and sounds taking different directions without ever getting lost, obsessive riffs that repeat, lacerating distortions sketching a scrape of the sky against a backdrop of buildings, steel, and concrete of New York. Absolutely worth a visit...