Sonic Youth — Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008 soul funk and Galaxie 500 exists again

and Galaxie 500 exists again as one of the most enrapturing and glorious bands to emerge from the underground in the past 25 years

así como los aficionados por igual

Unconventional

whose initial rhythmic claustrophobia opens up into a boom-clap nocturnal chase

Hints of classical influences as well as electro influences can be heard

Sonic Youth — Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008 soul funk and Galaxie 500 exists againThis live album was released as a bonus with Sonic Youth's final album The Eternal in 2009 and reminds you what a seminal band they were and how much missed they are in the current climate of seemingly unfashionable (if we believe the charts) guitar based rock. Effortlessly creating a bridge between NYC avant garde, guitar noise and alt. rock, and thus paving the way for Nirvana, grunge, Pavement et al, Sonic Youth continued to extend the landscape