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NATN: Murray Street was born out of your acoustic tracks. What are the origins of these pieces? Thuston Moore: Well, this one is not too dissimilar. I mean, when we were getting ready to do this record, again I was in the process of trying to amass some material for some forthcoming solo jolt. But I delivered maybe half of the songs to the band, and said, well, let's try these for starters. They were already sort of structured and had lyrics. So we did that, and it's great. I always really like doing it because each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It's always so great for me. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song. In fact, I sometimes forget which ones were
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