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50
YOKOKIMTHURSTON feels both exhaustively sprawling and claustrophobically hermetic.
50
To listen to this album repeatedly is not rewarding – it seems to be a live recording, produced without overdubs, full of glaring contingencies, mostly interesting on first listen only
40
Part spoken word, part squealing orchestral noise rock, and 100 percent full of musical dementia, the record is the definition of an iconoclastic artistic statement, even if it’s hard to tell what, if anything, it’s trying to say.
37
Unfortunately the music itself (or lack thereof) is one of the biggest ripoffs any of the involved parties have yet released.
20
YOKOKIMTHURSTON is an improvisational cluster that has no beginning and no end, and no plot to keep listeners on the track to redemption.
The most surprising thing about YOKOKIMTHURSTON is that it took until 2012 to happen. After all, what are Sonic Youth if not the modern manifestation of the avant/rock ideal that Yoko and her late husband John Lennon forged with Plastic Ono Band?
The most surprising thing about YOKOKIMTHURSTON is that it took until 2012 to happen. Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have long been vocal cheerleaders for #TeamYoko, whether enlisting their daughter Coco to "cover" one of Ono's earliest ... read more
The most surprising thing about YOKOKIMTHURSTON is that it took until 2012 to happen. Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon have long been vocal cheerleaders for #TeamYoko, whether enlisting their daughter Coco to "cover" one of Ono's earliest ... read more
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Track List
- I Missed You Listening
- Running the Risk
- I Never Told You, Did I?
- Mirror Mirror
- Let’s Get There
- Early in the Morning
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Added on: September 28, 2012