Sonic Youth
Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star

THE REVIEW

The TITLE of this particular 1994 album practically says it all...
Here we see the true expressive freedom of Sonic Youth, the "sonic youth" indeed that plays with sounds and noises, in the variety of tones that each track assumes.
From the soft, thoughtful melodies of "Winner's Blues," we move to the controlled hysteria of a Thurston Moore who references a gay God in taking a stand for respect towards homosexuality in "Androgynous Mind." Kim Gordon then showcases various and new facets of herself, hypnotic as always, sometimes you hear her mature... sometimes childlike, but nonetheless in her detached reflective world.

Particularly worth listening to is "Tokyo Eye," a metaphor open to interpretation...

In short, among riffs, beloved resonances, and inevitable feedback, you can clearly recognize them: Sonic Youth... in a transitional moment from the still rock-heavy and pissed off "Dirty," to what (passing through "Made in America") will pave the way for their future introspection... "Washing Machine" of 1995.

Therefore, enjoy in this album the echoes of the sonorities of the hardcore youth of the New York background that Sonic Youth embodied when they started in '81, because from here on they will evolve to appeal to the true connoisseurs of a new music that in some experimental cases will, in my view, become pure AVANT-GARDE ART... no longer music...
..only to return to music once again with "Murray Street" in 2002.

Bon voyage.