Even at their most chaotic and atonal, the downtown-New York guitar spoilers Sonic Youth are never about the destruction of rock but about its deconstruction - the breakdown of tiresome punk-metal guitar formality into a primal skronk soup from which ...more
The Daily Vault Album Reviews
No matter how many times I listen toDaydream Nation, one image still burns in my head:that damn candle on the album cover. Listen after listen, it feels like I'm not listening to the album in the right environment. I feel like I need two large ...more
All Music Guide
By refining the song-oriented breakthroughs ofSisterand developing their fascination with noise and alternate tunings, Sonic Youth created a masterpiece of post-punk art rock with the double-albumDaydream Nation. Though the self-conscious sprawl of ...more
Guardian
When the US rock underground began poking its head above the surface in 1988 with the release of Daydream Nation, a process was set in train that would lead to Nirvana becoming the biggest rock band in the world. Sonic Youth had been putting ...more
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