Chelsea Light Moving
64/100
When they divorced in 2011, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon drove a stake through the heart of Sonic Youth. So now you've got Moore at age 54 making very similar music--songs with cool lyrics and a mellow, spare beginning that build ups with layered guitar until feedback and distortion destroys yet another pair of speakers--with new band mates in Chelsea Light Moving. If you're a Sonic Youth fan, this album is the ugly sister of the tremendous Murray Street of 2002, although it rocks a little harder in some spots, like the metal guitar of "Alighted." The album starts off pretty good--"Sleeping Where I Fall" being the best track--but goes downhill from there. The wife is gone; much of the chemistry is missing. (I can't find any decent tracks from Youtube from this album.)
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