J'accuse Ted Hughes Vinyl
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Avant-garde, cerebral, and unmistakably Sonic Youth, J’Accuse Ted Hughes is the seventh installment in the band’s SYR (Sonic Youth Recordings) series—a bold dive into live experimental territory. Captured at the 2000 All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in the UK, this LP immortalizes a pivotal performance that marked their final show as a four-piece until 2006.
Side A features the transcendent “New Drone,” retitled “J’Accuse Ted Hughes” after Kim Gordon’s haunting vocal reflections on Sylvia Plath’s tragic marriage. With 12-strings shimmering and feedback rising in waves, it’s a hypnotic, one-chord meditation that’s as unsettling as it is gorgeous.
Side B welcomes Jim O’Rourke into the mix for a deep drone piece recorded in 2003—a moody, slowly unfurling soundscape originally created for a collaboration with fashion designer Agnès B. The track encapsulates Sonic Youth’s evolution into denser, long-form improvisation.
A limited, essential document for SY devotees, this LP fuses no-wave grit with compositional grace. Packaged with a bit of rock journalism shade on the sleeve, it’s Sonic Youth doing what they do best—confounding expectations and bending sound to their will.
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