Sonic Youth Gossip - Best new/most anticipated albums of 2021

Sonic Youth Gossip (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/index.php)

- Non-Sonic Sounds (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/forumdisplay.php?f=4)

- - Best new/most anticipated albums of 2021 (http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/showthread.php?t=123576)

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

- Is This Desire? Demos - PJ Harvey (January 29)

Still a coupla weeks to go for this one to be released, and the next one has already been announced - February 26:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Severian

Norman Fucking Rockwell had some fine songs, and “Venice Bitch” is great, but in general I’m pretty meh on Lana Del Rey

I think NFR is a fucking masterpiece!! The stretch of songs from California to Happiness Is A Butterfly is truly astounding. If she can keep up this kind of work on the new album I will be beside myself.

(Soup Nazi, I'm.......concerned.)

New Gizz in Feb:

https://exclaim.ca/music/article/kin...ew_album _l_w

(Yes, I know. I'm the only one here who loves Gizz. And Taylor Swift (2020 anyway). And Billie Eilish. Etc Etc. The previous Gizz (KG) was a grower for me. I love it now!)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skuj

(Soup Nazi, I'm.......concerned.)

You're concerned? I'M CONCERNED. It's a Sonic Youth board and nobody seems to give a flying fuck that one of the two last surviving New York Dolls has left us, and instead there's all this talk about Taylor Swift and Lana del Rey and Charli XCX and all that BULLCRAP. Not to mention there should be a 10-page thread about why it is impossible to choose just one Wussy album because they're all extraordinary and they're the best band in the fucking world.

^ It's remarkable that while several of your posts are rather thoughtful and eloquent, when it comes to me you knee-jerkishly revert to a garden-variety high school troll. I've followed more artists from their very beginnings than your shitty anime radar will ever give you the chance to.

You're a grown man yelling at a teenager on the Internet because she doesn't really care about your musical opinions.

Quote:

Originally Posted by choc e-Claire

You're a grown man yelling at a teenager on the Internet because she doesn't really care about your musical opinions.

Well, if you didn't really care you wouldn't have posted anything, but nevermind, guilty as charged: it's a lose-lose for me because I'm supposed to be the adult in the room, so even if I have a point and you're being a brat, it's like, "Hey, dude, come on, she's supposed to be a fucking brat". Kind of a copout from someone who has proven she can grasp complexity, but still, my bad.

Sonic Youth - Personality Crisis [New York Dolls cover]

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

I have a point

Quote:

Originally Posted by Skuj

New Gizz literally always coming, forever

Quote:

Originally Posted by Severian

New Gizz literally always coming, forever

Well yeah. But in this particular case, Feb 26th. :)

(Soup Nazi, I'm.......concerned.)

I listened to that Chemtrails song and heard less than nothing there, Soup I feel you don't worry

i wasn't before, but im curious about this shit now.

thanks for the heads up

--

eta: still nope on chemtrails ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

same little melody repeated ad infinitum and not in a philip glass kind of way

--

and still nope on lana del rey. maybe she's got clever lyrics or something but for me it's just boring music.

wasn't she the one who ruined sleater-kinney anyway? or am i confusing her with someone else?

otoh i still got a few billie eilish tracks on rotation since this broken record was last played here :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

wasn't she the one who ruined sleater-kinney anyway? or am i confusing her with someone else?

You're thinking of St. Vincent, a brilliant musician who didn't "ruin" Sleater-Kinney, but... contributed to a not altogether satisfying change. How's that for diplomatic. ;)

Quote:

For two decades, MONO have defined and refined a kind of orchestral rock that is as emotional as it is experimental. Their 10 studio albums over those 20 years have established MONO as what Pitchfork described as “one of the most distinctive bands of the 21st Century.” Meanwhile, their live concerts are typically more subdued in instrumentation – and more supercharged in volume and voltage. Rarely is there the opportunity to combine those two experiences. In their 20-year history as a band, MONO have presented no more than a half-dozen live concerts featuring the support of an orchestra. Such events are not only unusual – they are also unforgettable. 

 Beyond the Past • Live in London with the Platinum Anniversary Orchestra documents MONO’s extraordinary performance from the Beyond the Past event that celebrated the band’s 20th anniversary, which took place at the historic Barbican Centre in London, England on December 14, 2019. For that once-in-a-lifetime event, MONO selected a memorable lineup of old and new friends, including fellow Japanese underground icons, Boris and Envy, as well as French post-metal legends, Alcest, and UK collaborators A.A. Williams and Jo Quail. The event culminated with MONO performing with The Platinum Anniversary Orchestra, featuring National Youth String Orchestra to a rapt, sold-out audience of 2,000.

 Playing through a two-hour set that touches on the band’s entire history, the sheer euphoria and dynamic resonance that engulfed the massive crowd was captured in brilliant detail by MONO’s live sound engineer, Matt Cook. Meticulously mastered by Bob Weston and presented here in its entire two-hour glory, Beyond the Past is one of the most essential MONO recordings. Packaged in a triple gatefold with accompanying 40-page photo book, this is the rare document of an event that is an event in and of itself.

releases March 19, 2021

https://monoofjapan.bandcamp.com/alb...sary-orchestra

i posted this elsewhere but wanted to link here as recommendation. just released a few days ago and im listening to it a bunch:

arthur hnatek trio - static

see: https://arthurhnatektrio-whirwind.ba...m/album/static

The album: Weezer - OK Human
The verdict: Well, at least it's better than the Black Album...

Tune-Yards - sketchy. (March 26)
Juliana Hatfield - Blood (May 14)

Thumbscrew - Never Is Enough (February 26)

I will not be listening to a Weezer album in 2021 or ever again, thank you