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ARTIST
SONIC YOUTH
TITLE
Anagrama
FORMAT
12"
LABEL
SYR
CATALOG #
SYR 001LP
SYR 001LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
6/10/2022
2024 repress. "While 1995's
Washing Machine
LP moniker was a thinly-veiled jab at the corporate aesthetic, their major label relationship was indeed a curious buzzpoint of talk on the street after their intake to DGC in 1990. The
Anagrama
EP became the first in a series of the SYR label's
Perspective Musicales
releases seemingly cementing
Sonic Youth
's connectivity to an increasing public awareness in experimental composers of the 20th century (French or otherwise). It was clear that both Sonic Youth's stature in progressive music, aided by now unlimited taperoll time thanks to a home base studio downtown established after their Lollapalooza stint, gave the band plenty of trailblazing time for their self-examination of untraveled avenues.
Anagrama
unfolds into nine minutes of delicate textures, starting with thick drone segueing into moments reminiscent of the post-crescendo flutter/comedown of 'Marquee Moon's' trail-out;
Thurston
,
Lee
and
Kim
's guitars all circling round each other taking delicate pokes and stabs before drifting into some post-rock rhythmic moves tapered with complementary percussive guidance from
Steve Shelley
. The finale track 'Mieux: De Corrosion' is a real pedal-palatte showcase. Here, Plutonian guitar wash flanges upwards to buoy a myriad of colorful eruptions of amp-spuzz, chopped up tone blasts and general confusion. Out of the blue, some metallic one-note choogle kicks in and threatens to explode into some Judas Priestly motion, before it all sputters into aural glass showers, clang, and finally a ferocious wave of more flange hiss that crashes down on a dime. This initial foray into SY's
Perspectives Musicales
series continued onward with releases featuring other co-conspirators, peaking with the ambitious 2CD Goodbye 20th Century that finally connects the band into full-on interpretations of other composers' pieces (as well as displaying their own new ones). The whole series is not so much an outlet for another 'side' of the band, but a run that went hand in hand building new approaches of songcraft onto their own, more overground direction which included
Jim O'Rourke
, adding additional density to
A Thousand Leaves
and other LPs of his era. Fans of the '86
Spinhead Sessions
as well as the recently-exhumed later jams of
In/Out/In
will take in the sounds of SYR1 with glee."
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