View basket “Universal Heart-Beat (10″ Single)” has been added to your basket. Anagrama Sonic Youth SKU: SYR1-12 Barcode: 0787996000114 29.00 £29.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: SYR Released Date: 26th April 2024 Buying Format: 12" EP/Mini Album Add to basket Reserve Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Anagrama is an EP by Sonic Youth. It was originally released in May 1997, and was the first in a series of experimental and mostly instrumental releases issued on the band’s own SYR label. While 1995’s Washing Machine LP moniker was a thinly-veiled jab at the corporate aesthetic (“no, you cannot turn Sonic Youth into a household appliance brand”, the band even considered changing its name to Washing Machine but settled on the album title instead), their major label relationship was indeed a curious buzzpoint of talk on the street after their intake to DGC in 1990. It wouldn’t be fair to say that this state of existence propelled the band to reinforce its independent mindset by releasing a series of opaque-looking, French-language-dipping, highbrow-looking releases on their own that focused on the more abstract improv/compositional side of the band; in all truths they had been heavily steeped in self-releasing spillover material prior to that. But after a pressure pot of the early 90’s indoctrination into a new operational mode for the band and its visibility, and the forces around it attempting to shape their direction, it seemed like a good time to create a strong show of radical concept. The Anagrama EP became the first in a series of the SYR label’s Perspective Musicales releases seemingly cementing Sonic Youth’s connectivity to an increasing public awareness in experimental composers of the 20th century (French or otherwise). The irony was that many of those original avant composers being rediscovered by the indie audience (Partch, Neuhaus, Reich, Messaien) often found themselves on major labels anyway! So, perhaps this reverse approach was a necessary concept/comment given the music biz climate of the 90’s. Regardless of how apples and oranges fell in Xenakian probability/theory, it was clear that both Sonic Youth’s stature in progressive music, aided by now unlimited taperoll time thanks to a home base studio downtown established after their Lollapalooza stint, gave the band plenty of trailblazing time for their self examination of untraveled avenues. “Anagrama” unfolds into nine minutes of delicate textures, starting with thick drone segueing into moments reminiscent of the post-crescendo flutter/comedown of “Marquee Moon’s” trail-out; Thurston, Lee and Kim’s guitars all circling round each other taking delicate pokes and stabs before drifting into some post-rock rhythmic moves tapered with complementary percussive guidance from Steve Shelley. “Improvisation Ajoutée” reaches further out into dissolve with whirring oscillations, guitars hissing and clanking radiator-style in a short blast format that continues into “Tremens” and a spooked-out landscape of gelatinous notes snaking up slowly. The sparseness of attack is colorful, textures emit and linger, silent spots shine, all flanked by tasteful drumming that provides the thread to all the abstraction. Shelley’s approach here is interestingly sideways to any kind of usual rock action, it’s tempered, mutant and metronomic simultaneously. The finale track “Mieux: De Corrosion” is a real pedal-palatte showcase. Here, Plutonian guitar wash flanges upwards to buoy a myriad of colorful eruptions of amp-spuzz, chopped up tone blasts and general confusion. Out of the blue, some metallic one-note choogle kicks in and threatens to explode into some Judas Priestly motion, before it all sputters into aural glass showers, clang, and finally a ferocious wave of more flange hiss that crashes down on a dime. Fans of the ’86 Spinhead Sessions as well as the recently-exhumed later jams of In/Out/In will take in the sounds of SYR1 with glee. – Brian Turner Artist Sonic Youth Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label SYR Buying Options 12" EP/Mini Album Format 12" , EP/Mini Album Condition New Country UK Track Listings Anagrama Improvisation Ajoutée Tremens Mieux: De Corrosion Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Sonic Youth View Product Quick View Sonic Youth Walls Have Ears Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Goofin | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 9th February 2024 £34.00 - £41.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Sonic Youth Walls Have Ears £34.00 - £41.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Goofin Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 9th February 2024 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View Sonic Youth The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Goofin | 2LP Released 28th 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