Rather Ripped

rollingstone

Sonic Youth have always had an eccentric taste for melody, but they've rarely indulged it as blatantly as they do on Rather Ripped. Damn if these grizzled art-punk elders aren't trying to make a pop album a good fifteen years after that would have made any commercial sense. Most of the twelve tunes hover around […]

pitchfork

Latest album from the legendary NYC band is also its tautest, a record full of propulsive, three-minute art-pop songs.