Thurston Moore - Flipped Out Bride (Reissue) Proper
ARTIST.....: Thurston Moore
TITLE......: Flipped Out Bride (Reissue) Proper
LABEL......: Blossoming Noise
URL........: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_Moore
RIP DATE...: Jan-27-2007
STORE DATE.: Nov-12-2006
GENRE......: Indie
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 42,4 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Flipped Out Bride 16:06
02 - O Sweet Lanolin 12:12
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28:18 min
Release Notes:
www.blossomingnoise.com
www.sonicyouth.com
www.ecstaticpeace.com
Proper. Lame 3.90.3 (APS).
Two extended tracks of drone and skree from SONIC YOUTH heavy
petter. Featuring artwork by Kim Gordon. Flipped Out Bride was
originally released as part of the pygmy series, limited to 500
copies on blue marbled vinyl.
Considering how rapidly most musical innovators burn out and
disappear, Sonic Youth's longevity is remarkable. But it's not a
hard thing to understand. SY simply never stopped growing up in
public. The band has grown more conservative vis-a-vis its
major-label offerings, as so many haters have taken so much glee
in pointing out for the last, oh, 20 years or so. But in their
abundant down-time, Steve, Kim, Lee and (particularly) Thurston
have indulged in new forms, forums and concepts, and have gone
far, far out of their way to facilitate the underground arts,
whether through publishing, distro, or their frequent limited-run
improvised works. Whether or not Moore always knows what he's
doing, he takes on every project with enviable enthusiasm and
unmistakable personality. Compared to anyone on his short, short
list of contemporaries, Moore gets the most out of his money.
Flipped Out Bride is a half-hour free-form gee-tar freakout. The
sound is a bit clearer than on some of its comparable cousins.
While the most immediately striking of these things (e.g. the
gripping Klangfarbenmelodie...) swing wildly in temperament and
execution, Flipped Out Bride spends a few minutes setting the mood
and the rest letting it simmer enough that, when it reaches its
clattering apex (at about 22:00), its release feels well earned.
After the glacially escalating drone of "Flipped Out Bride" (part
one of two), "O Sweet Lanolin" (part two of two) finally gets back
to Moore's trademark raking, overtone-y, echo-inflated,
Branca-indebted method. And yet, most of his stylistic tics remain
submerged in the wintry texture. More than most of his solo work,
Flipped Out Bride distils the grim beauty in downtown guitar rock.
It rides the low. It's a great February disc.
Predictably, this CD is not a stand-alone item, but part of a
larger project touching on visual art and literature. Fuck yes,
it's self-indulgent. Many embittered ex-punks will disapprove.
But, as he often does, Thurston Moore makes "dancing about
architecture" sound like it might be a lot of fun.
(www.dustedmagazine.com)