Sonic Youth - SISTER (CD) | NEW

Label: Goofin' Records – Goo020
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: US
Released: Apr 8, 2016
Genre: Rock
Style: Indie Rock, Art Rock, Noise Rock, Post-Punk

1        Schizophrenia    4:37
2        (I Got A) Catholic Block    3:28
3        Beauty Lies In The Eye    2:12
4        Stereo Sanctity    3:46
5        Pipeline / Kill Time    4:31
6        Tuff Gnarl    3:12
7        Pacific Coast Highway    4:25
8        Hot Wire My Heart
Written-By – Johnny Strike
3:20
9        Kotton Krown    5:04
10        White Kross    2:39

Distributed By – Revolver USA
Recorded At – Sear Sound
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Sonik Tooth
Published By – Sonik Tooth
Published By – Kobalt Music Publishing
Published By – Pilker Publishing
Made By – REV/CA – 26348
Engineer – Bill Titus
Illustration [Inner Illos] – Lucius Shepard
Other [Crime Decipher By] – Byron Coley
Performer – Kim Dash Gordon*, Lee Linn Ranaldo*, Steve Cougar Shelley*, Thurston Mirror Moore*
Producer, Directed By – Sonic Youth
Programmed By [Moog] – Walter Sear
Written-By – Sonic Youth (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
℗1987 Sonik Tooth, administered by Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI), except track 8 published by Pilker Publishing (BMI).

Cover photos from public domain, jacked from Sonic Matrix.
Barcode (Text): 7 87996 80202 2
Barcode (Scanned): 787996802022

Reissue. One of Sonic Youth's most beloved albums, 1987's Sister incorporated the dissonance of their earlier releases into more traditional song structures. It's an innovative and thrilling work assuredly delivered by a band at the peak of their powers. Sonic Youth formed in 1981 in New York. Founding members Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (bass guitar, vocals, guitar) and Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the band, while Steve Shelley (drums) followed a series of short-term drummers in 1985, and rounded out the core line-up. In their early career Sonic Youth were associated with the no wave art and music scene in New York City. Part of the first wave of American noise rock groups, the band carried out their interpretation of the hardcore punk ethos throughout the evolving American underground that focused more on the DIY ethic of the genre rather than its specific sound.

Originally released on SST (134).
The blunt, chaotic sound of Sonic Youth's visionary but difficult early work had begun to give way to a more coherent and song-oriented attack on 1986's EVOL, and with 1987's Sister, Sonic Youth revealed that they were a great rock band as well as a great art band. From the shifting dynamics and disquieting mood of the opening track "Schizophrenia" to the ferocious coda of "White Cross," Sister was the work of a band that had grown impressively stronger and more unified in the 12 months since their previous long-player. The sheets of sound that issued from Thurston Moore and Lee Renaldo's re-tuned and modified guitars were still the core of their sound, but Sonic Youth's songcraft was steadily improving as they made better and more effective use of their aural palette and created a melodic context that helped their noisy report make greater dramatic sense. After going through a handful of drummers, Steve Shelley finally gave Sonic Youth the combination of chops, imagination, and force that they needed behind the kit, and while he certainly improved EVOL (his debut with the group), it was Sister where he truly make his mark: the steady pulse and rhythmic shadings of "Catholic Block," "Stereo Sanctity," and "Tuff Gnarl" helped firm up the tunes and added some discipline to Moore and Renaldo's exploratory guitar work that, remarkably, made their twisted instrumental figures more impressive and no less distinctive. And the warmth and clarity of Bill Titus' all-analog engineering made the guitars (and Kim Gordon's bass) sound as glorious as they always deserved; while Sonic Youth had been a band with great ideas from the start, Sister was where the execution finally caught up with the concept, and it was their first truly great album. ~ Mark Deming

• Condition: NEW
• Format: CD
• Internal ID: 787996802022
• Format Detail: CD
• Genre: ALT/INDIE
• Label: Goofin' Records
• Catalog Number: Goo020
• Format Type: CD
• Released: 2016-04-08