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- ASIN: B000003TAH
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- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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On Evol, Sonic Youth finally allows pure experimentalism to take a back seat. The band escapes from the lab, is set loose on the indie-rock landscape, and, in the process, opens itself up to a much wider audience--all without sacrificing any of its raw, brutal power. Dissonance, feedback, and weird tunings are all here but tamed and used sparingly within the context of (more or less) traditional song structure. It's a confident, uncompromising work that strikes a unique balance between art and accessibility. Kim Gordon's whispered vocal on "Shadow of a Doubt" is truly haunting; "Starpower" will have you singing along; and "Expressway to Yr Skull," the closer, is a beautiful wreck. --Mike Corrigan
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Brooding 1986 album feat."Madonna, Sean & Me(a.k.a 'Expressway To yr Skull')
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Unlike the reviewer below I came across this album at the tender age of 14, and was at that point a Morrissey wannabe! That all changed, though not immediately... I was lent a tape with Evol on one side and SY's follow up Sister on the other side. I had never heard anything like this music before, but it slowly captivated me until it became my muse and guiding light of my teenage years. Less rock n roll that Sister, Evol is more poetic, freeform and haunting. Sonic Youth for the first time demonstrated a truly unique blending of guitar and feedback textures and melodies, with wierd sounding gtrs,a bass and drums shifting behind poetry and songs. There was always something mystic about Evol, I feel it is a serious album. Not a lot of that ironic thing that they went through later. At first I was scared of Evol! I thought Sonic Youth were a horror band! (Who could believe that Huey Lewis and the News could come from the same time and place?) Evol is psychological. Extreme negativity, doubt and also ecstatic peace and hope. It describes emotional hurricanes - as Lydia Lunch might say - but has a dreaminess too. And what are these emotions? They are grey areas not well expressed by rock and pop music. Are there love songs here? I don't know! There is no A&R for this music! Sonically, it could never have been recorded digitally, it has a special warmth. It sounds dated to me now, but it sounded dated when I first heard it. Future dated or timeless.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is not one of Sonic Youth's most accessible CDs - it's very noisy at times and hardly has any recognisable, common melodies - but it is nevertheless a great album. I've been a Sonic Youth fan for nine years now, and I think that their music is an acquired taste, something you need to get used to and then try some more of. Evol is essentially for people who already know Sonic Youths and like them. People who don't could find this album pretty difficult to relate to. Evol goes against our conventions of rock-pop music and its boring, predictable melodies and song structures. It challenges us by not quite fitting into any category, because it is alternative in the true sense of the word. But it's not just sitting and suffering while listening to screeching guitars noises; it is enjoyable and strangely coherent. Evol is one of the finest examples of Sonic Youth's musical theory. And it is probably one of the highest-quality alterative music albums you'll ever hear.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The first youth album I got (a few years ago now) and still the scariest and most consistently electrifying in my opinion. The meandering collages of bad moon rising have been replaced by a keener and far more accesible pop sensibility here, and the youth explore the darkest side of pop with an almost joyful aplomb. It's all relative however, and I must warn readers that while I describe this album as the youth's first incling's of a pop side they must realise that this is a harsh, gyrating noisy beast of a record. It snarls and bangs it's way through 9 tracks (bubblegum is a lightweight bonus cut)and takes the listener on a musical journey that terrifies and exhilirates.The opening cut, Tom Violence is one of the best songs that sonic youth have ever recorded, and bubbles under with raw angerand hatred in it's guitars. Next comes the haunting and scary shadow of a doubt that details Kim Gordon's dreams of killing on a train. Starpower is the most obvious examp[le of the pop side I have detailed, and Lee's spoken word "In the kingdom #19" is intense and aggressive.The album's highpoint has to be the exceptional "expressway to yr skull" which snarls and screeches like a possesed demon. Neil young once described it as the greatest guitar song ever recorded, and while that priase might be going a bit far expect to be blown away by the sheer force of the tune and the raging siren like guitars. Be afraid...be very afraid
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This is the classic sonic youth album!
The perfect 'sonic' C.D. this one is my all time favourite..next to Daydream Nation.. a must for fans of the 'New York City' underground scene!
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