6/30/2023 0 Comments Dark visions trilogy![]() But for much of their career, particularly during an intensely productive period in the mid-1980s, Sonic Youth’s songs displayed a particular doomed fascination with the ideas of America that reached dubiously mythical status in the Reagan years. Sound was their medium, but every artist likewise has a subject, and for Sonic Youth that often shifted, from abstract variations on songs of love and lust to actual pop cultural critique. ![]() ![]() Which might not have been half as effective had they not also written great songs, they just weren’t great songs that sounded like anyone else’s. ![]() From their early no wave recordings on deeper into the ’80s, Sonic Youth found inspiration not just in songwriting but in manipulating their instruments to warp and bend in ways not intended by manufacturer specifications, whether through homemade modifications, unusual tunings or playing them with implements other than a pick. Sonic Youth carved their path to becoming the quintessential band of the American underground on the very thing their name projects: Sound. ![]()
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