other titles...
- Tom Violence
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Starpower
- In the Kingdom #19
- Green Light
- Death to Our Friends
- Secret Girl
- Marilyn Moore
- Expressway to Yr. Skull
- Bubblegum - CD & download Bonus Track
Sonic Youth
Evol (2015 reissue)
Goofin’
The band's 3rd studio album, originally released in 1986, shows the first signs that the band was ready to transform their no wave past into a greater alternative rock sensibility.
Born out of the noise of New York's thriving-in-ugliness no wave scene & ensconced in the influence of Glenn Branca's avant-garde guitar experimentalism, their early albums slowly morphed from the snotty abrasive clatter of its self-titled EP & spotty first proper LP 'Confusion Is Sex' into a far darker but still somewhat inconsistent merging of haunted song sketches & foreboding noisy atmospheres on 2nd album 'Bad Moon Rising'. 'EVOL' found the band in a similarly eerie mindset, but this time the dark dreaminess of songs like 'Tom Violence', the tense instrumental 'Death to Our Friends' & the gorgeously restrained 'Shadow of a Doubt' are snapped into lockstep clarity by Steve Shelley's precise, tom-heavy drumming.