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Murray Street

by Sonic Youth

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All Time

of 455,625

1,771
2000's

of 265,887

174
2002

of 42,285

25

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 3.2289 Murray Street is ranked overall as 3.2289 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.1850 Murray Street has an avg. critic score of 3.1850 out of 4 stars

Murray Street Album Reviews

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Stylus Magazine

Keeping track of Sonic Youthâs endeavors has become something of a fulltime occupation nowadays. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Sonic Youth find a balance--between formlessness and structure, melody and cacophony--that's eluded them for a while

Rolling Stone

Murray Street achieves that rare thing for any band - real consistency. ...more

PopMatters

Consider Murray Street to be Sonic Youth's calmer, more introspective journey into the science of sound, one filled with just as many gifts as their earlier, more hard-hitting works. It's filled with rewarding listens. ...more

All Music Guide

Murray Street's first four songs rank among the most consistent, and consistently exciting, work in Sonic Youth's career, so much so that the album's shorter, more rock-oriented songs feel a bit anticlimactic. ...more

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Tiny Mix Tapes.com

Sonic Youth. The very name evokes a pictorial sense of nostalgia: washing machines on blue shirts, candles, Muppets, blue jeans, slow-motion b/w videos; these genre defining images of the late 80s and early 90s will forever be imbedded in our brains....read the complete review at Tiny Mix Tapes.com

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Blender

They've got more sweet-and-bitter guitar muscle than...read the complete review at Blender

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New Musical Express

Overall, SY fail to get into their groove between twisted, brutalised melody and spastic six-string experimentalism....read the complete review at New Musical Express

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The A.V. Club

At this point, Sonic Youth can't make an album that doesn't sound like Sonic Youth, but the band has found a vital muse by jiggering with its tail-chasing condition over the past few years. Starting with 2000's grimy and spectral NYC Ghosts &...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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