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Sonic Nurse
by Sonic Youth
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Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
3.1886
Avg. Critic Score:
3.0407
Sonic Nurse Rank 3 Reviews
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PitchforkWhile Sonic Nurse isn't quite as strong as its predecessor, it's equally as imbued with instrumental dexterity and impressively coherent ideas. ...more
Pitch Fork MediaHow? It's a question elicited by any great album, but one that accompanied Sonic Youth's 2002 return to glory, Murray Street , in particular, and will likely arise in response to any remotely decent effort from the group herein. It might have ...more
PopMattersSonic Nurse finds them embracing and sifting through the finer moments of their past over the course of 10 outstanding tracks. ...more
Dot MusicWhat emerges is Sonic Youth at complete ease with themselves and their music, operating simultaneously at the peak of their powers and with a powerful, audacious restraint. ...more
Dusted MagazineSonic Nurse is the happy medium they've been craving. The songs, despite being mostly over five minutes long, are all to the point without feeling meandering.... The balance between noise and melody is right, with each emerging and vanishing at just the ...more
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Village VoicePercolates the same melancholy satisfaction and nervous maturity, entropy and growth, in and out--but with an urgency and impulsiveness that risks upsetting the balance. ...more
Stylus MagazineSonic Nurse, if not proof of a band bursting with fresh ideas, is at least fresh-sounding. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)On the whole, Sonic Nurse compiles a laid-back hour of elaborate plucking and rhythm from five veteran musicians who reserve musical violence and poetic anger for when it feels most appropriate. ...more
JunkmediaThe krang of album’s past seems more an afterthought as the band explores the natural textures of layered guitar and lumbering bass tracks. ...more
Playloudersample: Unmade Bed Sonic Youth have never relented to the pressure to become more accessible in their impressive 23 year career so it’s not likely they’re about to start now. 'Sonic Nurse' works on a few levels; it seems to be their most ...more
PrefixMagGo to any Sonic Youth show on their current tour and you'll see an extraordinary thing. Up on stage will be five adults, four of whom are approaching or past age fifty, playing gorgeously ragged rock 'n' roll to a packed house full of teenagers and young ...more
UncutA fetish nurse cover shot that could've been lifted from a Jim Thompson paperback. A regular flicker between white noise and mellow, Jefferson Airplane circa Volunteers melody... It could only be the return of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee ...more
All Music GuideAll told, this album is probably the band's best balance of pop melodies and avant-leaning structures since Washing Machine; even if it doesn't rank among their most ambitious work, Sonic Nurse sounds like the kind of album Sonic Youth should be making ...more
E! OnlineThis ain't another Daydream Nation, but Nurse is a good cure for what ails the airwaves. ...more
Rolling StoneBy Sonic Youth's own ear-shredding standards,Sonic Nurseis mellow gold. The guitar feedback that has defined these noise-worshipping New York bohemians for more than twenty years hasn't vanished, yet this is Sonic Youth's most accessible album ...more
Delusions of AdequacyWhilst Moore’s meandering stops Sonic Nurse from going that much needed extra mile, Kim Gordon and Lee Ranaldo are on reassuringly good form. ...more
ShakingThrough.netIt's [Kim] Gordon's tracks that make the strongest impact. ...more
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