The Eternal
 

The wait for full confirmation and information is over…

Sonic Youth’s 16th album, The Eternal, will be released on vinyl, compact disc, and digital album by Matador Records on June 9 and was produced by John Agnello and the band.
Recorded through November and December of last year at the band’s Echo Canyon West studio in Hoboken, NJ, The Eternal features many firsts for a Sonic Youth album, including a number of shared vocals between Kim, Thurston, and Lee, and the studio debut of former Pavement/Dustdevils bassist Mark Ibold, a member of Sonic Youth’s touring band for the past few years.

The band’s current extracurricular activities are rather numerous…

• The Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf, Germany is now hosting the touring museum exhibition SONIC YOUTH ETC.: SENSATIONAL FIX, which focuses on the band’s multidisciplinary work since the band’s formation in 1981, including their collaborations with visual artists, filmmakers, designers and musicians.
• Kim Gordon launches a clothing line, Mirror/Dash, at Urban Outfitters on February 16, and is showing at The Armory Show in NYC March 5-8.
• Lee Ranaldo, with co-conspirator Leah Singer, just opened installations at the Konsthall in Stockholm and the CNEAI in Paris, and he has a piece in the travelling exhibition “Bad Moon Rising 3″, currently at Boots Contemporary Art Space in St. Louis.
• A Beck/Sonic Youth split 7″ is being released by Matador on April 18 for Record Store Day.
• And the band recently collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (along with former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and mixed-media sound composer Takehisa Kosugi) on a work celebrating, and being performed for, Cunningham’s 90th birthday on April 16 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Upcoming Sonic Youth shows include April gigs in Austria and Germany (including the closing of SENSATIONAL FIX in Dusseldorf) and May 16 at the No Fun Festival in Brooklyn. The will be touring throughout the summer in support of the new album.
Matador will shortly announce a Buy Early Get Now opportunity for the album with some very interesting bonus material.


Track listing:
1. Sacred Trickster
2. Anti-Orgasm
3. Leaky Lifeboat(for Gregory Corso)
4. Antenna
5. What We Know
6. Calming The Snake
7. Poison Arrow
8. Malibu Gas Station
9. Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn
10. No Way
11. Walkin Blue
12. Massage The History

thx Moshe
i totally dislike this though. (the design)

"Anti-Orgasm" and "Calming the Snake"...

Gregory Corso is awesome, Mindfields is essential.

They have a dash in their name now.

Okay album cover.

see the Fahey signature bottom left-hand corner?

hey wait the art was done by Fahey?
I love it then.

thanks Moshe! I love that coverart...

so they indeed went with one of Fahey's paintings, anyone have background on that one?

did he really paint it with his butt or thurston was joking?

oh my GOD. I LOVE the artwork. It's beautiful. Though it looks like a crazy jazz album to me. haha. But I love it. I'm so excited.

bahahahaha

clean that mess on yr keyboard.

Of 'The Eternal', Matador's Gerard Cosloy says, "We've not had a record in our recent history that's been the subject of nearly as much speculation and anticipation. Suffice to say we're pretty amazed at the way the band delivered something this neoteric while still sounding like, well, themselves. Less of a reinvention and perhaps more to do with a particularly awesome dozen songs."

Fuck. Yes. *reposts this thread on other message boards*

Well obviously I love Fahey, he's in my top 3 favorite musicians of all time. Just don't know if it's the best sonic youth album cover in the world.

what neoteric means?

oh fuck yeah , that ' s awesome !
I love the artwork , almost sonic nurse .

About fucking time they dedicated a song to Corso. Seriously.

matablog.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

new promo pic

any higher resolution avaliable?

Fucking awesome! I can't wait. Thanks for posting Moshe!

"Mark Ibold is a Trademark of Matador Records."

So Mark is photo'd with them now. But he's not like "in the band" right? He's only on the one studio track? Is he still in the touring band?

bigger cover for you:

This is still weird... sonic-youth.

sonic less youth

"-" is for mark ibold.

Is it really?

 

 

 

Didn't bother to look for this, but does the vinyl come with the cd with the Matador Early Order shiz?

We dont know what comes with the preorder yet.

HOT DAMN.

The cover makes it look like it's the latest Fall record. Not a fan of it though. Can't wait for the music, however.

The cover makes me think of cakes.

The cover reminds me of the Fire Music Lp by Archie Shepp



- and yeah, that's a good thing

The cover subsequently fit's the studio picture, that 60's-70's vibe - ooooh.

You've got a point, NR. The dash hasn't been in their name in a looooong time, though, has it?

Cover is great.

Mark should be a full member.

Album title seemed improbable
Tracklisting felt improbable
Cover art looks improbable

Now I'm just hoping that the music will be improbable as well

from matablog

Sonic Youth are:
Steve Shelley
Lee Ranaldo
Kim Gordon
Thurston Moore
Mark Ibold

Did the title 'Walkin Blue' replace 'trash weasels and gutter snipes'? Also, I prefer 'Malibu Gas Station' over the potential (although unlikely) 'Something About a Malibu Gas Station,' and 'Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn' sounds WAY cooler than just 'Bobby Pyn.' The term 'thunderclap' in a Sonic Youth song title gives me high hopes for this track. Please bring the noise, even if it's in a Detroit rock style.