Sonic Youth - Nyc Ghosts & Flowers - Vinyl Record

For more than a quarter century, Sonic Youth – featuring Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley – ruled the New York underground as the reigning post-punk experimental noise band of its era, releasing 15 full-length albums, from 1983's Confusion Is Sex to 2009's The Eternal. Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) is re-releasing the entire nine-album DGC/Geffen catalog – which ranges from 1990's Goo to 2006's Rather Ripped – remastered from the original stereo analog master tapes on high-grade vinyl. All vinyl album releases will also include an accompanying digital download card.

2000's NYC Ghosts & Flowers is Sonic Youth's thirteenth album, and yet manages to sound fresh and familiar at the same time - probably largely due to the theft of an extensive amount of their gear directly prior to the album's composition. It was also their shortest record in years, a fact that shouldn't be interpreted as lack of new ideas - instead, Sonic Youth offer a fury of chaotic, melodic, and psychotic soundwaves that leave you wanting more.

Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune exclaimed: "Though Sonic Youth flirted with alternative-rock songcraft in the early '90s, these noise-rock renegades are once again happily viewing their guitars as hunks of wood, wire and infinite possibility...No rock band makes the avant-garde sound quite this tactile and sensual."

1. Free City Rhymes
2. Renegade Princess
3. Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)
4. Small Flowers Crack Concrete
5. Side2Side
6. StreamXSonik Subway
7. NYC Ghosts & Flowers
8. Lightnin'