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I love it. Or at least, I love a lot of it. A few songs really fall flat (Rats), but the ones that work are in the majority and they’re fantastic. It features a lot of my favourite Kim tracks too. More love needs to go to Turquoise Boy. Jams Run Free is amazing.
I'd probably say I like it more than Nurse or NYCG&F among their post-2000 output, but then again those are the two albums of theirs that I haven't listened to all the way through very often, so I should probably re-evaluate them. Maybe my opinion will change.
I honestly don’t think that Sonic Youth have released a remotely bad “proper” album. Everything up until and including Dirty is some of my favourite music ever (although I could never really love BMR like most of the board seems to), EJSTNS and Washing Machine are both great, but I never really clicked with the latter to the degree that a lot of people have. In fact, laying it out like this, I’d say that ATL, Murray Street and RR are all pretty much competing for my favourite post-Dirty studio album. This is not including side projects and SYRs. I fucking love me some of those.
Still wouldn’t touch the top 5 though. You know what, fuck it, thinking about things like this has inspired me to go listen to all 30 or so Sonic Youth related releases that I own in succession over the next couple of weeks, really get to grips with the whole discography. I probably won’t end up getting through them all, but hey, it’ll be fun.
Damn, this is one hell of a rambling incoherent post. Sorry.
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