Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves

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• SONIC YOUTH A THOUSAND LEAVES

Music reviews of A Thousand Leaves

Music Review: spooky, wild, free, uncomfortable, lovely
Rating: 5 Stars

"Contre Le Sexisme": This spookfest strats it out, seeming to be a fragmented glimpse at a disturbing childhood incident, with Gordon's scratchy vocals going along at their slow pace as the other instruments slowly set the mood, and then it stops, leading into...

"Sunday": Where the adventure really strts, this grunge beauty is also the most coherent and easily accesible song on the album. All about how to spend a glorious sunday afternoon

"Female Mechanic Now On Duty": As said before, it is wandering like many tracks on this album. It seems like an aggressive girl yearning to strip down and rebuild something, but always confused how she should act: "Modern women cry, modern women don't cry."

"Wildflower Soul": Lost soul in the form of a young child racing thorugh fields and cities, singing her "child lights". alot of nice and unique transitions on this song, and then it erupts into chaos, pulling back just in time for the last few notes of the stanza. The SY formula in pure form. But the dream doesn't end there...

"Hoarfrost": "We'll know when we get there", "I place my feet deep in the footsteps you made", they become the meadow. Do these string of words make sense to you? In any case, a very haunting, atmospheric peice.

"French Tickler": Some people don't like it because of the unusual vocal patterns. It starts out with Gordon singing about free time and how she wants to get it, then it get's harder with her screaming about having sex me thinks.

"Hits Of Sunshine": Truly a classic as so many have said before, a tribute to Allen Ginsburg, definitely a triumph in poetry as the yellow shadows and painters addicted to the light become real. Very long, a meandering slow jam which drags on a bit, but isn't boring.

"Karen Koltrane": Is she a real person? Don't know, but here she's lost deep in her own mind, searching for something. Like the guitar interruptions and noise here a lot.A very dark trip.

"The Ineffable Me": A good accompiantment to Gordon's Female Mechanic, also seems to be done with poweful aggression. Political, it is, or should I say anti-political...she addresses her hatred of the hate castrators and how she "can't stop vommitting since she has been in office".

"Snare, Girl": Heavenly to say the least, with religious (possibly even Christian) overtones. Let's you indulge in a little of that Sonic Youth afterlife. If you can see past the religious overtones, it's a very beautiful song--which is needed for people like me who aren't religious.

"Heather AngeL": Since the album started out uncomfortable, it ends that way as well. Starts out calmer, then gets really loud and dissonant, leading into a rumbling ending. It can get a bit painful and annoying, espescially if played in a bad cd player, but it's tolerable.

There you go. Interesting. Mass confusion. Ginsburg. Kerouac. Burroughs. Sonic Youth. Need I say more?

Description of A Thousand Leaves

Alternative Rock CDs

• Music > Styles
• Pop
• Rock