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noisereductions 06.22.2012 10:13 AM

Chelsea Light Moving
 
so T has a new band then, huh?

Moshe 06.22.2012 10:20 AM

http://stereogum.com/1073092/chelsea...28stereogum%29

Pookie 06.22.2012 10:53 AM

I presume they'll sound just like Sonic Youth?

EDIT: Actually it turns out not as much like SY as that article suggests.

mil_pl 06.22.2012 10:58 AM

So what do ya think of it?

Pookie 06.22.2012 11:00 AM

I like this track a lot. I was really surprised by how good it is.

silverfreepress (sdasher) 06.22.2012 11:07 AM

press(ed) release


Tell Us About Your New Band, THURSTON MOORE!
June 22nd, 2012 at 9:00 am by Nils

FOR IMMEDIATE…mmmmm…RELEASE

(newsflash courtesy of Love Sick Times, free periodical for poets and punks)

This song is called BURROUGHS.
It is by the band CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING.

“Burroughs” MP3 – click me

Members of band:
Thurston Moore (gtr/vocals/songwriter)
Keith Wood (gtr)
Samara Lubelski (bass)
John Moloney (drums)

“Burroughs” is the first track from a session recorded in the wilds of Western Massachusetts in the springtime of 2012. It was inspired by the last words of the gentleman who wrote the most significant experimental novels of the late 20th century (Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded etc.) – writer William S. Burroughs (“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”). After sitting in the orgone box planted in Burroughs’ back yard of Lawrence, Kansas in the midpoint of the 1990s, Thurston Moore came to the realization that at some point he’d need to form a band that played Burroughs Rock. This is the sound of Wild Boys looking to jack hypos of core passion into their veins. Boy on boy. Girl on girl. Start there. It’s not even music – it’s an amphetamine sonnet for the on-the-loose lovers of the world. Chelsea Light Moving will play your town. Right now we’re playing Friday June 22 2012 at the Sled Island bizarro freak slam in Calgary, Alberta near where Neil Young used to skinny dip when he was a laser-brained teen. Then we play Missoula, hometown of zero pop hate puppy Steve Albini. Then we play Boulder and Denver Colorado before Thurston settles down for a week of teaching at the summer writing workshop at Naropa University. Also on the faculty are Amiri Baraka and Anne Waldman, which means: More tunes, more damage. Another song comes yr way in a week, even sicker.

“Burroughs” was recorded and mixed May 18-20, 2012, by Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab, Easthampton, MA.

Upcoming Thurston Moore US dates:
June 24 – Missoula, MT The Top Hat
June 27 – Bouler, CO Boulder Theater
June 29 – Denver, CO Larimer Lounge

noisereductions 06.22.2012 11:32 AM

what worries me is that a new BAND makes it feel like SY is very much over. Like if it was just solo albums that's diff. Y'know? Feels final. :\

rocky 06.22.2012 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noisereductions
what worries me is that a new BAND makes it feel like SY is very much over. Like if it was just solo albums that's diff. Y'know? Feels final. :\


Maybe, maybe not! Thurston seems to love songwriting and likely just really wanted to record and release his current songs this year when the paint was properly still a little wet and the feelings feeling right. This year may be a lot more dynamic than we had thought...! I am pretending this was a split single released with Shouts on the other side because, yeah! both songs are overflowing with life, enthusiasm, and "the ineffable" (indescribable)

Lazewski 06.22.2012 11:53 AM

Ever heard of side projects? Exactly what this is.

noisereductions 06.22.2012 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lazewski
Ever heard of side projects?


of course. But a new BAND being formed when primary band is on indefinite hiatus doesn't make me feel all warm n fuzzy about the future of said primary band.

Pookie 06.22.2012 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noisereductions
what worries me is that a new BAND makes it feel like SY is very much over. Like if it was just solo albums that's diff. Y'know? Feels final. :\

Surely the fact that SY have done nothing worth listening to in recent years coupled with the fact that this track is really good makes this nothing but a good thing?

stu666 06.22.2012 12:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noisereductions
of course. But a new BAND being formed when primary band is on indefinite hiatus doesn't make me feel all warm n fuzzy about the future of said primary band.


It's not really a new band though is it? It's the same line-up that he's been touring with and performing his solo stuff for ages...

I really like Burroughs.

stu666 06.23.2012 03:59 AM

 

_tunic_ 06.23.2012 05:24 AM

so is the planned European tour going to be this band, or the other band?
Wel,, it's the same band, but what are they going to be like?
Still considering whether to go to Antwerp having seen him twice last year, I wasn't too impressed back then with the acoustic stuff. But that was partly caused by him being blasted away by the supports (Branca/Half Japanese resp. Disappears)

hipster_bebop_junkie 06.23.2012 10:43 AM

"Burroughs" sounds to me like an expansion of the same ideas and general dynamics of "Groovy & Linda" as they played it in Mexico City back in April, for instance. At the risk of being wrong, I'd say you can expect certain amounts of massive, electric sound as opposed to acoustic shenanigans, _tunic_. I guess some audience recordings will give us an idea of what to expect before the record's out. Hoping a capture of that show in Alberta will surface soon.

noisereductions 06.23.2012 06:43 PM

I like "Burroughs" I guess. It doesn't sound leapyears away from SY though. Makes me just want a new SY album. That setlist looks like CLM is basically just Male Slut 2.0 then? A band to play T's solo shit?

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 06.23.2012 08:02 PM

it sounds like foo fighters with Head on lead, I don't like it.

Genteel Death 06.23.2012 08:10 PM

It's alright.

silverfreepress (sdasher) 06.23.2012 09:53 PM

I like 'Burroughs' better as a band name.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 06.24.2012 12:18 AM

 

RanaldoNecro 06.24.2012 07:40 PM

Someone finally found a use for the Globe and Mail other than wiping their ass.

What is Frank O Hara all about?

RanaldoNecro 06.24.2012 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by silverfreepress (sdasher)
I like Burroughs better as a band name.


Mind not be able to that because of legalities...

tough titty 06.25.2012 01:17 AM

Thanks for sharing that setlist on the Globe and Mail stu! Now I will know the names of the new songs for when I share the Calgary recording in mid-July!

mil_pl 06.25.2012 06:00 AM

It's okay, but something's missing. I mean I expected mo(o)re.

EVOLghost 06.25.2012 06:19 AM

I'm scared to listen to it at the moment.

RanaldoNecro 06.25.2012 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EVOLghost
I'm scared to listen to it at the moment.


Burroughs is a great track. Thurston is at his best when he is rockin out...

TheMadcapLaughs 06.25.2012 08:48 AM

its okay. you got the feeling thurston could make these kinds of songs in his sleep

sy2004 06.25.2012 03:06 PM

Anyway miles better than an album full of acoustic tracks.
Want to hear more now.

tesla69 06.26.2012 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lazewski
Ever heard of side projects? Exactly what this is.


I don't think so, this isn't Fleetwood Mac we're talking about. They are all working too hard for these to be side projects.

In actuality, these are as exciting times as ever for fans with so many new bands running around out there.

I'm just wondering how long this board will stay up without the main event working.

scott v 06.26.2012 11:32 AM

It definitely feels like to me that SY are over or definitely in long term hiatus, if Thurston and the crew felt compelled to keep SY going it would be happening now like it had been for the last 30 or so years...and Thurston wouldn't necessarily be having this new "band". I'm going to say that this Chelsea Light Moving eventhough it is the same musicians he's been working with for the last several years it is likely different in that it may be a collaborated song writing effort (and different than any of the other projects he has done over the years), otherwise it would be another Thurston solo album...

I agree with Tesla69 they are working too hard on other things and SY seems like something that has been shelved for each of them.

themawt71 06.26.2012 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tesla69

I'm just wondering how long this board will stay up without the main event working.




im pretty sure the site and board are not going anywhere for awhile. as lee has said even if they are not active now they have plenty of archival stuff so i don't think it would be in their best interest to scrap the board and site.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 06.26.2012 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMadcapLaughs
its okay. you got the feeling thurston could make these kinds of songs in his sleep



I get the feeling he was sleepwalking through this recording ;)

EVOLghost 06.27.2012 09:29 PM

Dammit, it's a good song. I can't help but think that this was possible new material for da yoof, except thurston is now using it for this new band....

hipster_bebop_junkie 06.27.2012 11:04 PM

Not a new band at all. As I mentioned before, you should have already experienced the same kind of awesomeness this new track has, if you saw them performing "Groovy & Linda" on their recent tour. Sort of thinking that some wouldn't really get their underpants in such a twist if this were announced as a potential new solo album by Thurston Moore, which it really is in a way, although I'm very happy that a new moniker somehow would make it more clear that there's valuable collaboration from everyone who forms part of this rocking unit, and has been there for a while.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to listening to the new, even crazier track that it's supposed to make it onto the internet this week.

You guys speculating so much about the divorce and Sonic Youth's possible future, or lack thereof, reminds me way too much of the same type of dull nonsensical posting in regards to things which are not related to the music or aren't even your business to begin with, which takes place at some other places on the Internet that I thought were kind of retarded, but I'm finally discovering I might just be too stupid and naive, and I was wrong, and this place is pretty much going straight to hell, if it isn't already downright ruined and just rotting there already.

Blah, blah, blah.

hypertonic 06.28.2012 10:15 AM

Doomed I tell ya... DOOMED!

Yeah... I like the sound of this project/track. I need some good noise-rock for 2012. Your right about the biz that is not ours. It's not in our control.. so why worry? These projects are plenty exciting for me to look forward to, and I'm just glad we have continued output.. We're lucky to have that, so to Lee & T. and the gang's other side projects, I say thank you! Fuck the haterz.

Forensic Scene 06.29.2012 06:08 PM

It sounds like Thurston has given up on trying to push his song writing. "Burroughs" seems like it could have appeared on The Eternal, which also sounded a lot like lazy songwriting. The last great group of songs that SY wrote (mostly introduced by Thurst) were on Sonic Nurse.

I wish he would try harder I guess...

ann ashtray 07.01.2012 01:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Forensic Scene
It sounds like Thurston has given up on trying to push his song writing. "Burroughs" seems like it could have appeared on The Eternal, which also sounded a lot like lazy songwriting. The last great group of songs that SY wrote (mostly introduced by Thurst) were on Sonic Nurse.

I wish he would try harder I guess...


For years I've been saying that Thurston's solo work usually just sounds like Sonic Youth minus the rest of the band. Sure, Thurston often brought in a skeleton...but Lee would bring it to life, so to speak.

I do feel Demolished Thoughts is amongst his better solo attempts. I mean, it was different at least.

His "noisy" solo stuff is usually boring-to-unlistenable (sans some of his collaborative efforts..esp. those w/ Nels Cline). I tend to leave the noisier/improv stuff to Lee.

EVOLghost 07.01.2012 02:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foreverasskiss
^^ it's fun to pretend. it's just the drums to kick like they should....

Steve would kick the shit outta this song.



Fuck yeah he would.

stu666 07.04.2012 04:36 PM

Denver setlist. I can't wait to hear Empires of Time, Frank O'Hara and any other new songs....

 

secretmonalisa 07.05.2012 02:02 AM

Anybody have lyrics to Groovy & Linda?


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