Sonic Youth Gossip - New(ish) Bands with an SY Influence

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- - New(ish) Bands with an SY Influence (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=115059)

Diesel

11.30.2020 06:31 PM

Girl Band are a one trick pony: the vocal style goes from completely disinterested rambling to screaming. I get lyrical content is banal on purpose since it's dealing with the guys mental issues and all power to him but every song sounds the same. By the end of an album I'm sick of him ranting about bananas and trips to the foken doctor. If you're hearing SY then colour me deaf.

Severian

12.01.2020 08:51 AM

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Just in the vocals really, sounded a bit Thurston-esque to me.

Severian

12.01.2020 09:36 PM

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:confused:

Well, I'm checking out Cindy Lee anyway. Sounds like my kind of Fi

I’m confused by your confusion, but yeah listen to the new Cindy Lee.

Severian

12.03.2020 08:38 AM

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Doesn't take much.

I listened to the first few Cindy Lee tapes and they sound like early SY. However, since you specifically mentioned the new un and the fact that I haven't got around to listening to it yet (especially this), you only get half a point, Sir. This half a point is now deducted because of Girl band. Well done, you had it all and you threw it away.

Shut up and listen to What’s Tonight to Eternity

And the Talkies is a nice album so shush

greenlight

12.03.2020 02:57 PM

thanks i will check it out.

Severian

12.04.2020 08:59 AM

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I listened to it yesterday. Good stuff. I especially enjoyed the Karen Carpenter excerpt where she is describing her argument with Satan in the living room. I didn't realise she was religiously fucked up. Bleak and haunting melancholy, reet up my street.

Wait, Lucifer Stand? How the hell did you know that’s Karen Carpenter?
I was trying to find the origin of that sample when the album came out but all I could find were references to “a recording of a religious testimony”.

Can you link your source on that please?

Severian

12.04.2020 09:00 AM

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thanks i will check it out.

You’re welcome :)

Severian

12.06.2020 04:28 PM

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I read the notes on the album posted on the bandcamp page which refers to a Karen Carpenter influence and the voice in the sample sounds just like her, so I presume it's her. I could be wrong.

Yeah, there’s Karen Carpenter references in the notes, but I’ve found no indication that it’s her in the recording. You could be right, but I actually wondered about exactly this not long ago, and scoured the Internet for references to the source. I can’t find an actual attribution anywhere. (Shrug)

I’m super interested, is why I ask. Would rather know than assume, y’dig

Severian

12.16.2020 11:33 AM

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I'm most definitely late to the party here since these bands sound so much like Sonic Youth and you all probably already know of them: The band Patrick was in with his brother (Matt) before Cindy Lee are heavily influenced by SY too. Women, very good shit. After they broke up Matt formed Viet Cong and their first cassette is decent but they have since changed their name (maybe because WOKENESS! - which should definitely be punishable by death in middle eastern football grounds converted for public execution) and became far too polished for my taste.

Viet Cong kicked fucking ass before they changed their name. One of the best post-punk albums of the 2010s.
Honestly stopped paying attention to the band now known as “Preoccupations.”

Cindy Lee’s new one has miles on a lot of what came before it from the Women world, though.

Severian

12.18.2020 08:46 AM

… ah man I know right

Severian

01.05.2021 08:57 AM

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Dream pop post-punk with SY stylings

Hey this is nice! Thanks!

greenlight

01.07.2021 01:35 PM

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Dream pop post-punk with SY stylings

do not really see a SY styling in it (it is just me probably), but it is really good. I like it. thanks for the tip.

_tunic_

01.07.2021 02:34 PM

They sound more like The Cure to me

Severian

01.08.2021 09:20 AM

I can hear the SY pretty clearly. I can also hear Cure, but I also hear some early Cure on Evol, so not entirely mutually exclusive.

greenlight

01.10.2021 07:08 AM

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I've been listening to it every day and I can't get Padlock out of my head. It's getting to the point of obsession and I'm going to abandon the drum kit I've just bought and record with drum machine samples for the forseeable future.

what kind of drum machine?

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