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To talk about Sonic Youth is to talk about New York. Since the beginning of the 80s until today, Sonic Youth has carried on being one of the most emblematic bands of the Big Apple and proudly so. Since their beginnings and times before their formation, the young Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon came across places such as the CBGB and Max´s Kansas City, where some of the most revolutionary bands of the punk and nu-wave era played: Suicide, Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Lydia Lunch, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks and DNA to name a few. With all of this emotional, generational and musically united package, as well as an avid interest for contemporary art and the Lower East Side galleries, Sonic Youth began to find their own way in the New York underground scene.
During the 80s, Sonic Youth edited some of the most emblematic albums and songs of alternative rock of all time: ´EVOL´, ´Bad Moon Rising´, ´Daydream Nation´ and ´Schizophrenia´, in which the guitars of Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore arrived to levels of composition, noise, pop and dynamics of incredible value. It´s no coincidence that they´ve been named as two of the most important guitarists in rock in the last 60 years because in the formation of Sonic Youth, and perhaps from there their important input and the fact of their continuity up to today, Ranaldo and Moore depend off one another to arrive to that high musical state that only few bands can have in the studio and live; cohesion and precision, a group of forces working together.
Last year they publicly announced the separation of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore after twenty years of being together, thus making what was inevitable into possible, the unexpected end of Sonic Youth. However, this is not the end because Lee Ranaldo, the favourite Sonic Youth member of all the staff at Only Apartments, brings us a great album called ´Between the Times and the Tides´ on the 20th of March, fresh from the studios at Matador Records in New York. This album brings us the characteristic sound of Ranaldo when singing and playing the guitar, songs that converse while one listens or travels down roads of lost dreams and hopes. The first video of this album is already out, from the song ´Off the Wall´, which you can see right here. ´Between the Times and the Tides´ is an album that you must listen to if you´re a fan of the versatile Lee Ranaldo, author of poetry books, art books and various experimental tapes and collaborations. To know more about Lee, visit his website here: http://www.sonicyouth.com/symu/lee/
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