Feb. 27, 2013 - Issue #906: Tegan and Sara - Pop goes their world
Chelsea Light Moving
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The best and worst thing about Thurston Moore is you never, ever, know what you're going to get. If you hear that Moore has a new project, should you be excited or scared? Are you going to get the sing-song-with-moments-of-destructive-power Thurston Moore, or will you get the "Silver Sessions," where every guitar and bass his band owned was plugged in, leaned against an amp and allowed to feed back until it was unlistenable?Chelsea Light Moving is, thankfully, the former. Familiar enough you won't forget Moore is the sometimes-frontman of Sonic Youth (RIP?), it's new enough to be worth picking up.
The songs work like the most straightforward of Sonic Youth: they're pop songs, except when they aren't. And when they aren't, they're a terrifying burrow down the rabbit hole of noise, insane guitar freak outs and abused drums, until you feel the rudiments of music slipping away from the group before—as if the needle got stuck in a groove and was flicked out again—it wrenches back into a catchy structure and Moore returns with his back-and-forth singing voice.
There are a couple moments where Moore gets a bit precious and makes like one of the Rimbaud-infused, Patti Smith rock poets which I wish he'd knock off, but let's not judge too harshly an artist stretching their legs. vueweekly.com comments: powered by Disqus
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