Legs akimbo
 

I can't believe i've read some of you actually have it in you to dislike Rather Ripped. I really can't understand why. It's quite possibly the most energetic thing i've heard Sonic Youth do for years. It's quite possibly one of the best records i've heard in years, fuck.

If you want to know what it sounds like, but you're against the idea of downloading it, here it is....

Its the sound of Sonic Youth returning to 'movement music' again. The songs are strictly horizontal in direction. If you imagine certain tracks from Murray Street as skyscrapers climbing higher and higher, each new peice of music,each confusing and bewildering new riff being a platform,mesa,butte or plateau that you're head is lifted towards...then consider alot of songs from Rather Ripped as railway line. The songs dont climb. Rather, (excuse the pun) they speed forwards, and everytime they return to the driving riffs or chorus, its like speeding and smashing through great barriers. Tearing through something. And your back with the wind again. Whipping through miles of something. Thats what Incinerate sounds like to me. Sonic Youth literally moving again. There are ofcourse other sounds. But i cant get my head around the first 4 songs yet. This record is a freight train, man. It just keeps going forwards, picking up speed. And this is not to mention some amazingly fresh and beautiful melodies,man. Guitar parts that suprise you by digging out another dimension from a part you thought you could second guess.

Fuck me i sound like a prick from a coffee table magazine. Im actually writing this for myself to be honest. I dunno, you've just got to hear this thing to believe it. This along with the new Loose Fur are two of the most amazing things iv heard in years. The word that sums them both up, really, is 'suprising'. And i mean strictly musically. Like 'where the fuck is this song going next?!'

If you're young, dont wait until xmas or your birthday in the middle of october to get this record, buy it as soon as its out. On the sunniest day in June. Its fucking beautiful.

i've chosen to wait for it.. so, i don't know what to expect..

but i am looking forward to it..
i've never heard a bad SY album.. they range from "magnificent" to "pretty good"..


it is going to be a fine summer, from what you're saying...

Well, it'll definately be summer anyway....at some point during the year, at the very least.

'Legs Akimbo' were an awesome theatre group in Royston Vasey. And hell yeah, Rather Ripped is rather rad.

Royston Vasey as in The League of Gentlemen??

Yes.

I wasn't a fan of said show, but for some reason the phrase is used regularly around these parts.

skid adle
 

*surely* a case of chicken vs egg? No? OK.