Thurston Moore’s latest finds the inveterate noisenik reteaming with Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, and also inviting My Bloody Valentine bassist Debbie Googe into the fold, for another round of avant garde guitar action.
‘Speak To The Wild’ is a Sonic Youth-style rocker boasting Moore’s distinctively idiosyncratic playing, and features some particularly intense riffage mid-song. The epic, 11-minute ‘Forevermore’, meanwhile, is an adventurous jam that simmers nicely before coming to the boil, and contains both punishing guitar freak-outs and Moore’s familiar beatnik lyrical poetry.
It’s not all relentless heaviness, however, with Moore revisiting some of the folk stylings he explored on his previous solo effort, 2011’s Demolished Thoughts. ‘Tape’ is baroque acoustica with some unusual guitar textures, whilst ‘Vocabularies’ is terrifically eerie effort which nicely blends folk rhythms with more abrasive electric sounds.
Another satisfying effort from one of alt.rock’s most legendary figures.
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