CD Review: The Eternal

Band: Sonic Youth
Release: 2009

1. "Sacred Trikster" - Grade: 9.5 - Sounds really retro.
2. "Anti-Orgasm" - Grade: 9.6 - Great Thurston/Kim back-and-forth.
3. "Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)" - Grade: 9.1
4. "Antenna" - Grade: 9.3
5. "What We Know" - Grade: 9.1 - Crazy guitar.
6. "Calming the Snake" - Grade: 9.7 - Pretty damn distorted...awesome!
7. "Poison Arrow" - Grade: 9.5
8. "Malibu Gas Station" - Grade: 9.0
9. "Thunderclap (For Bobby Pyn)" - Grade: 9.2
10. "No Way" - Grade: 9.4
11. "Walkin Blue" - Grade: 9.4 - Lee Renaldo is a genius!
12. "Massage the History" - Grade: 9.8 - Two songs in one!

Final Grade/Comment: 9.4 - Amazing lyric right here from Kim Gordon on the last song: "Come with me to the other side/ Not everyone makes it out alive."

Upcoming Sonic Youth Release!

The new album, The Eternal, will hit stores on June 9, 2009. It is their first album on Matador Records, marking their return to independent record labels after eighteen years on major label, Geffen Records.