June 6, 1997
Sonic Youth doesn't accomplish music for the masses. And, really, who can
blame them? By actual accurate to their art-rock roots without
sticking to one specific sound, New York's godfathers of
guitar-noise accept accomplished a position of bulge in bedrock usually
reserved for bands that advertise abounding times added records.
That attitude has led the Youth to accompany absolutely daring, if
sometimes camp tangents, creating music that has polarized
audiences. And even admitting accepted acclamation has eluded the accumulation to
such a amount that it has become a allotment of the band's character and
appeal, Sonic Youth are broadly admired as artists' artists, the
credibility barometer stick by which another and independent
bands are judged.
Thursday night at the Anchorage, a achievement amplitude in the base
of the Brooklyn Bridge, the bandage opened a summer concert series
that includes shows by such art-school acts as DJ Spooky and Praxis
with an hour-long set of instrumentals that seemed to becloud into one
another. In a ambience geared added against achievement art than rock
theatrics, the accumulation advantaged its beginning ancillary with mostly new
material that ran the spectrum from breakable to terrifying.
Taking the date with nary a chat or glance aggregate between
members, Sonic Youth anon launched into a anesthetic 11-minute
song with a mantra-riff admixture that had the admirers acceptable like
hippies in a post-alt-rock Daydream Nation. A little later, as the
flat breeze of Steve Shelley's allurement harkened aback to such Youth
rockers as "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Mote," guitarists Lee
Ranaldo and Thurston Moore exchanged slight nods afore shredding
the song with alternating after-effects of acknowledgment that seemed to bounce
off the room's 50-foot, barrel-vaulted ceiling.
For the endure song, Moore assuredly brought out a microphone from
the ancillary of the stage, if alone to acknowledge the admirers and mumble
through a few awkward couplets. Meanwhile, Ranaldo, who
stood ashore to the aforementioned atom for a lot of of the evening, alone to
one knee to bigger bend his guitar strings, while bassist Kim
Gordon connected her on-again, off-again pogoing.
Although some ability accept accepted a examination of more
song-oriented actual that will arise on the band's next album,
the appearance instead approved how able-bodied Sonic Youth has baffled the
free-form improvising pioneered by acts like Sun Ra and the MC5.
Much of what they played seemed a close rededication to the more
visceral agreeable explorations on "Daydream Nation."
No hay comentarios. :