The Best Day
Former Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore has said his new album is steeped in positivity, with the implication that he’s having too much of a good time in his new life in England to dwell on the past. My Bloody Valentine's Deb Googe and former SY drummer Steve Shelley contribute.
Thurston Moore brought an end to some longstanding things in 2011: After being caught in an affair, he separated from Kim Gordon, his wife of more than 25 years and co-founder of pioneering noise-rock band Sonic Youth—which, in the aftermath of the split, met its demise as well. Such breaks in life are rarely clean,…
The Best Day does plant a stake in the ground as a new beginning for Moore, but doesn't offer much in the way of compelling us to venture forth with him.
Thurston Moore’s divorce from Kim Gordon and the subsequent hiatus of Sonic Youth has no doubt left him a changed man.
To anybody even remotely familiar with anything else Moore has put his mind to in the past, this is just too safe and clean-cut.
All the classic Sonic Youth hallmarks are here: Moore’s half-spoken, half-sung drawled delivery, Steve Shelley’s powerhouse drumming, nomadic guitar runs and vague lyrical exhortations to ‘start a fire, stop a fight’.
Since the dissolution of Sonic Youth, the world's foremost purveyors of organized noise and guitar feedback, Thurston Moore has been busy with side projects, none of which sounded particularly like his primary band.
Album review: Thurston Moore - The Best Day. The closest we’re likely to get to a new Sonic Youth album…
Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore sounds replenished on this fine solo set, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>
The Best Day finds Moore playing energized, accessible guitar rock that retains many elements of Sonic Youth’s inimitable sprawl.
Thurston Moore's new album 'The Best Day' Reviewed by Northern Transmissions, the LP comes out on October 7th on Matador, the first single is "The Best Day"
The alt-rock godfather recruits My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth personnel for his noisy, vaguely angry new album, writes <strong>Harriet Gibsone</strong>