Demolished Thoughts
The Sonic Youth frontman gets production assistance from Beck on a rich and satisfying acoustic-oriented LP.
Beck produced Thurston Moore’s latest, and it seems strange that the two mop-topped, baby-faced ambassadors of alt-rock hadn’t met on record before. But Demolished Thoughts was worth the wait. An album of deeply psychedelic unplugged love songs, it’s the Sonic Youth singer’s most surprising solo outing yet. Beck’s Sea…
Thurston Moore corralled a pretty impressive roster of collaborators for his third album, the acoustic Demolished Thoughts…
Though it’s somewhat surprising Thurston Moore and Beck didn’t work together prior to Demolished Thoughts, their collaboration lives up to its promise, delivering an album of psychedelic chamber folk that is the perfect meeting of both artists’ mellow sides.
Sonic Youth have been successfully treading the underground for three decades and are one of the very few Eighties pre-grunge outfits to have kept going, rather than reform in pursuit of past glory.
Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore serves up a folk-influenced solo album, writes <strong>Ally Carnwath</strong>