Sonic youth shadow of a doubt lyrics10/3/2023 Conjuring images of NYC psychosis and small-town ennui, Moore, Gordon, Ranaldo and Shelley concoct some of their most vital moments pre-Daydream Nation over 20 minutes. Cresting on the album’s pièce de résistance, ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ and the clanging mantra of ‘Green Light’, Side One of EVOL comes and goes like a passing chimera.īut it’s Side Two where Sonic Youth come into their brazen, idiosyncratic own. The album’s sole single, ‘Star Power’ swiftly ups the ante here, as on so many peaks in Sonic Youth’s three-decade career, Kim Gordon carries the song’s chorded exuberance and twin-guitar attack with quiet ease. Retaining a fixation with societal and psychic discord debuted on Confusion Is Sex and Bad Moon Rising, its plodding dread hints at painstaking process. Introducing new drummer Steve Shelley - whose presence on EVOL can’t be overstated - one is instantly thrust into the drab netherworld of ‘Tom Violence’. With it, and perhaps without knowing it, Sonic Youth had lit a flare for the mainstream. Recorded with Martin Bisi throughout March 1986, it marked a creative quantum leap for the band that married noise-rock insularity with burgeoning melodic sensibility. With the label’s founder, Black Flag’s Greg Ginn, keen for the label to branch out from its hardcore-centric roots (a standing it had confirmed via Hüsker Dü, the Minutemen and more) Sonic Youth stumbled upon their cue to graduate from no-wave contenders to alternative rock heroes with EVOL. In early 1986, Sonic Youth signed to SST Records.
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