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A truly ambitious project, it's one of their most diverse releases yet, featuring a selection of guest performers and some extremely interesting recordings -- from the seemingly random yet very calculated half-hour Cage piece \"Four6\" to Coco's shrill delivery of Yoko Ono's \"Voice Piece For Soprano\", from the torturous yet compelling \"Pendulum Music\" to the perplexing yet amusing 88-key destruction of \"Piano Piece #13\", the album offers a vast sample of Sonic Youth chasing us down musical paths we might not otherwise have ever visited. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1.    Edges    16:03\u003cbr\u003e2.    Six For New Time    8:06\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cbr\u003e3.    Having Never Written A Note For Percussion    9:09\u003cbr\u003e4.    Six (3rd take)    3:03\u003cbr\u003e5.    +-    7:01\u003cbr\u003e6.    Voice Piece For Soprano    0:17\u003cbr\u003e7.    Piece Enfantine    1:28\u003cbr\u003e8.    Treatise (page 183)    3:25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e9.    Four6    30:01\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cbr\u003e10.    Six (4th take)    3:02\u003cbr\u003e11.    Burdocks    13:12\u003cbr\u003e12.    Piano Piece #13    1:28\u003cbr\u003e13.    Pendulum Music    3:58\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Revolver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48515943039159,"sku":null,"price":32.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0532\/2555\/4103\/files\/R-322191-1646000092-8373.jpg?v=1780436781"},{"product_id":"sonic-youth-slaapkamers-met-slagroom-lp","title":"Sonic Youth – Slaapkamers Met Slagroom - LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnfettered by studio time limitations with their own home base of Echo Canyon, SYR 2 shows Sonic Youth chasing the shadows of predecessor SYR 1 and the series' distinct aesthetic: total exploration of freedom and further discovery. While the cover art evokes European contempo classical releases of yore, Sonic Youth distinctively reinvent their own personal output potential the way those kinds of records revolutionized a previously defined genre. Their ethos of utilizing the roots of the Ramones, Television, VU, Stooges, and No Wave to shape their first decade now find the band in later years bullet-pointing fascination in AMM, MEV, improvised music, free jazz and other outer-limit\/organic refractions of traditional rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Sonic Youth's spontaneous-creation moments had long been showcased in their recordings, Peel Sessions, and live, SYR 2 sums up the band's state in 1997: rolling lots of tape, fine-tuning ideas and presenting great moments of exciting new directions, allowing deep-listener type fans to gain better insight into their sound process. 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Certainly not the irked Melody Maker scribe who headlined his review \"Goodbye 20th Century\/Goodbye Talent\", a screencap of which appears on the sleeve of this 2008 release. Sparks infamously declared \"Talent Is An Asset\", and one of SY's great ones was to give their deep listener faction something new and unheard to chew on. Initially live streamed in not-so-great quality, the SYR 7 mix ably accents the thunderous, phased crescendos that ebb and flow here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flip of this release brings Jim O'Rourke into the fold with a piece for a never-completed collaboration with French clothing designer Agnes B. Recorded in 2003 in SY's home turf of Echo Canyon in downtown Manhattan, this 18 minute piece plumbs even deeper drone recesses and colorful dins. 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