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The David Keenan review is in, yáll. It's mighty favourable, y'all:
"Stunning new album from the twin guitar/vocal duo of Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Bill Nace: Coming Apart is a mind-blower, the perfect melding of free-floating vocal reveries and gratuitously atonal twin guitar improvisations, expanding on the early live between-song form of Sonic Youth while moving into the kind of post-No Wave vectors that would mainline the free metal attack of groups like The Blue Humans and The Dead C into spontaneous song forms. Kim’s guitar playing is at an inventive apex here, tearing through ‘solos’ that forsake single-note excess for clusters of barbed overtones, using the guitar as a conduit for pure electricity with Nace working extreme textural detail here and great fuzzed up power chords there. The songs and guitar lines are instantly memorable even as they seem to defy the confines of actual song structure, with tracks melting into each other like wraiths. Kim has also re-invented herself as a vocalist – again – with a distant, automatic feel for body reverie that comes out of Patty Waters and she gives the nod to that with a striking, eviscerated version of “Black Is The Colour Of My True Loves Hair” as well as Nina Simone’s “Ain’t Got No”, channelling visionary female vocals via the ghost of electricity. Indeed, so radical is the group’s remit that it’s hard to believe that Matador would ever have considered releasing a record that was this far off the map if it wasn’t for Kim’s history with Sonic Youth. But they did and it’s a monster, one of the most radical guitar records of the year and probably the wildest side of modern freak from any Sonic Youth member to date. Simply phenomenal and beautifully presented in a swank black and white gatefold sleeve with red inners for that crucial feel of Louboutin sex and lux. Very highly recommended!"
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