Rather Ripped

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Sonic Youth

Album • Jan 01 / 2006 • 12 songs, 51m 52s
Alternative Rock Indie Rock
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Latest album from the legendary NYC band is also its tautest, a record full of propulsive, three-minute art-pop songs.

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Even back in the days of EVOL, what set Sonic Youth apart from their hardcore and post-hardcore peers was an innate sense of sophistication that had them surrounding aggressive noise with lyrical washes of sound. So it isn't too strange to describe Rather Ripped as Sonic Youth's "prettiest" album to date. The loss of…

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Rather Ripped continues with the mellow, poppy vibes that Sonic Youth started emphasizing on 2002’s Murray Street.

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