Sonic Youth Announce New Album: The Eternal

Noise-rock nerds everywhere expected to freak the F out on June 9.

I don't know about any of you, but Sonic Youth was one of those bands that made me realize who my friends were ten years ago.  As illustrated in the horrifically cliche Juno, some people think "it's just noise."  Others of us, however, built entire social circles around thinly-veiled Pagan worship of Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and the rest of the crew.

If you're like me, my friends from college, and Jason Bateman, then you should first turn off your noise-cancelling earmuff headphones, put out that cigarette, and get ready to smile more widely than Rob Gordon in the final scene of High Fidelity: Sonic Youth have announced their new album.

Matador Records will drop Sonic Youth's latest work, The Eternal, on June 9.  It will inevitably be a vigorous romp through soundscapes and walls of melodic noise, as we've seen the band fail to ever slow down.  And we can't think of a better title for such an iconic band than The Eternal.  They've also promised special bonus material if you buy the album through their Buy Early Get Now program. 

Tracklist for The Eternal:

1 Sacred Trickster
2 Anti-Orgasm
3 Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)
4 Antenna
5 What We Know
6 Calming The Snake
7 Poison Arrow
8 Malibu Gas Station
9 Thunderclap For Bobby Pyn
10 No Way
11 Walkin Blue
12 Massage The History

Posted by Mark Steffen on Feb 12, 2009 @ 8:00 am


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