All Tomorrow's Parties, Day One: Thurston Moore Dusts Off A Mid-Nineties Fan Favorite
Photo: Jason Bergman
“I have Thurston-itis!” screamed one fan during Thurston Moore’s set Friday night at All Tomorrow’s Parties. The cure, apparently: Really loud guitars, which Moore, the longtime Sonic Youth singer-guitarist, delivered while playing all of his 1995 solo album,
Psychic Hearts. (Friday featured several artists playing entire records, with Meat Puppets performing
Meat Puppets II and Built to Spill doing
Perfect From Now On). Moore’s performance was more than solid, even though he apparently only knew the words to two songs – he was reading lyrics off a music stand for much of the show. Though it felt like a niche set, the venue was fairly crowded, and both My Bloody Valentine mastermind Kevin Shields and Moore’s wife (and Sonic Youth bassist) Kim Gordon were looking on. Moore seemed playful as he ran through the album, which features a load of excellent fuzz jams, dissonant guitar spills, and some of his punkiest songs ever: He bantered with the audience before “Cindy (Rotten Tanx)” about how “this next song is not about Cindy McCain – at least I didn’t think it was,” and self-deprecatingly (and inaccurately) described
Psychic Hearts as “written in one day, recorded later that day and mixed that evening.” -- CHRISTIAN HOARD
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