Name: Dirty
Brand: Sonic Youth

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Catalogue number

4734935

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Black

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Discogs ID

[r12989759]

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2015-12-04

Signed copies

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Supplier GB

Universal

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Standard:20

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0602547349354

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Black LPx2

Artist

Sonic Youth

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

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Sonic Youth, formed in New York City in 1981, is a highly influential band that emerged from the No-Wave music scene. Comprised of Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, and Richard Edson initially, they later added drummer Steve Shelley. With their roots in experimental music and collaborations with Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth has consistently pushed boundaries throughout their career.

Over the years, Sonic Youth recorded 15 albums together and embarked on various side and solo projects. Their work is known for its challenging and innovative nature, making them one of the most intriguing bands of their time. The album "Sonic Nurse," featuring Jim O'Rourke's talents alongside the band members', further solidified their reputation.

In 2011, Sonic Youth went on an indefinite hiatus following the separation of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore after nearly three decades of marriage. Despite this setback, their impact on alternative rock remains undeniable.

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Dirty from 1992 was Sonic Youth's ninth album, and the second recorded for DGC / Geffen. They went into the studio with a perhaps unprecedented abundance of material. While Butch Vig's clean but full-bodied production certainly gave Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo's guitars greater punch and presence than they had in the past, and many of the songs move in the increasingly tuneful direction the band had been traveling with Daydream Nation and Goo, most of Dirty is good bit more jagged and purposefully discordant than its immediate precursors.

If anything, Dirty finds Sonic Youth revisiting the territory the band mapped out on Sister - merging the propulsive structures of rock (both punk and otherwise) with the gorgeous chaos of their approach to the electric guitar - and it shows how much better they'd gotten at it in the past five years, from the curiously beautiful "Wish Fulfillment" and "Theresa's Sound World" to the brutal "Drunken Butterfly" and "Purr".

Dirty

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Discover Dirty by Sonic Youth. Their ninth album, recorded for DGC / Geffen. LP and CD formats available. No label. Description: 'Dirty' is a jagged and purposefully discordant album, merging rock structures with chaotic electric guitar. Overtly political, it rails against the Reagan / Bush era.