Even having become a true institution of sonic chaos, Sonic Youth has always managed to surprise. This music raises the hairs on the neck of anyone who thinks they have heard it all. There is an inner logic in these winding structures that makes it captivating. Is it the bass line that Kim Gordon weaves while buzzing? Are these the erratic constructions that Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo build with their abrasive guitars? Uncompromising, the feedback grates from one chord to another, while the tempo becomes soothing, only to surge at the corner of the next verse. Sonic Youth invents a vocabulary, musical figures, that fascinate with their prismatic depth. Kim Gordon's ethereal voice dives into it like into a dizzying abyss, always accompanied by dissonant guitars that scream like mutant beasts. Here, the instrument is an experimental tool that probes the unknown by establishing reference points for the passing listener. And this listener will remain, trapped by these noise-notes that engulf them in the screech of a chainsaw. Thurston Moore's voice is also toneless when he proclaims the lyrics of "Pipeline/Kill Time" or more radically punk in the merciless "Hot Wire My Heart," a true "hit" from an anti-consensual band of which this album is one of the two masterworks.
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