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	Sonic Youth : Murray Street - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		However, Murray Street, their second collaboration with Jim O'Rourke (and their first with him as a full member of the group), not only recalls their past glories but explores new territory.
		Murray Street's wonderfully natural yet intricate sound is O'Rourke's most distinctive contribution to the group; while his work with Smog and Wilco pushed those groups to be more experimental and eclectic, with Sonic Youth he seems to give those tendencies focus and balance.
		Murray Street's first four songs rank among the most consistent, and consistently exciting, work in Sonic Youth's career, so much so that the album's shorter, more rock-oriented songs feel a bit anticlimactic.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1678194,00.html (351 words)

	Radical Adults Licking Godhead Style: A Murray Street Review -- by Matt Davis
		Murray Street, their sixteenth full-length album in a career that spans over two decades is an album that most definitely lives up to their legendary status as innovative songwriters and master experimenters of sound and language.
		Murray Street is the Sonic Youth of the new millennium.
		Murray Street is supposedly the second installment in a proposed trilogy covering the cultural history of lower Manhattan.
	www.highlands.edu /webzine/backbytes/features21/davisreview.htm (1170 words)

	EvilSponge: Album: Murray Street by Sonic Youth
		The answer, surprisingly, is that Sonic Youth have released what might be the best mellow album of their career.
		Specifically there is a screensaver, and a link to a hidden page on Sonic Youth's website wherein album owners can download a few b-sides and a whole series of high-res images of the band.
		This is a nice thing to do for the fans, and the fact that it is launched from the disc is a nifty way to frustrate people who only downloaded and burned the album.
	www.evilsponge.org /albums/SonicYouth__MurrayStreet.htm (753 words)

	Murray Street One Sheet
		Murray Street was originally the northern edge Queen’s Farm, a parcel of land that was subsequently used as the site of King’s College (1754), and then the original site of Columbia College (1787).
		Murray Street is (ostensibly) named after the location of Sonic Youth’s studio, in which recording of this album was begun in August, 2001.
		Murray Street is the first (though hopefully not the last) major label album to feature the massed saxophone work of Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich, best known as two-thirds of America’s most exquisite power trio, Borbetomagus.
	www.sonicyouth.com /history/ographies/murray-onesheet.html (518 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes: Sonic Youth
		The album is the second release in the supposed trilogy of lower downtown Manhattan.
		Album closer "Sympathy for the Strawberry" is a perfect example of this indifferent musical style while still showcasing a transcendent quality.
		The avant-garde aspect of the album is heavily based on added sounds and song structures, and the pop side is primarily due to the melodic appeal of the singing and guitar riffs.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/s/sonic_youth.htm (1291 words)

	Luna Kafé - Sonic Youth: Murray Street
		Murray Street is the name of the street in N.Y.C. where Sonic Youth have their recording and rehearsal studio.
		All in all is Murray Street another invitation from SY to all of us to enjoy a bit of adventurous rock'n roll, on this album you'll never know what direction they'll take next.
		All the songs are filled to the brim of creative details and all the trademarks of SY are still there, the driving rocksongs, the noisemelodies, the interplay of two of rocks most innovative guitarists, the dissonant and the beautiful intermingled.
	www.lunakafe.com /moon71/usny71c.php (497 words)

	Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It might have dawned on some fans only after hearing Murray Street that Sonic Youth's mean age was then roughly 45, and that the group arguably hadn't produced a record of such caliber since they were in their late 20s.
		Unlike Murray Street, the album isn't so much an expansion of form as a return to it: Here, Sonic Youth harken back to the noisome atmospherics of their late-80s work, only handing it a more crystalline production treatment that smacks of more recent releases like A Thousand Leaves.
		Murray Street's "Rain on Tin" was a euphoric rollercoaster ride that seemed to capsulize to the band's entire career.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/s/sonic-youth/sonic-nurse.shtml (1030 words)

	Murray Street recalls Sept. 11 - Culture
		The album — the second in a proposed trilogy on the cultural history of lower Manhattan and the follow-up to the 2000 NYC Ghosts and Flowers — is a simple, beautiful mix of fluid guitar melodies and pure gray distortion.
		Murray Street exquisitely melds Sonic Youth’s prime and mature pop sensibility with its restrained experimental leaning.
		The album is complex and intricate all the while remaining accessible and satisfying.
	www.dailylobo.com /news/2002/07/11/Culture/Murray.Street.Recalls.Sept.11-258018.shtml (546 words)

	Music \| Street scenes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But the big news on their 16th album, Murray Street (DGC), is that this is hardly news at all.
		Although the album delivers only seven numbers in 45 minutes (average song length: 6:32), Murray Street is also Sonic Youth’s most direct and accessible collection since Dirty, after which they turned their backs on the alterna-rock marketplace.
		But Murray Street lies just three blocks from the spot where several thousand people were unceremoniously deprived of their lives on September 11.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/other_stories/documents/02330395.htm (1514 words)

	HMV.co.uk: albums: Murray Street (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The second of a 'proposed trilogy about the cultural history of lower Manhattan' which they began back in 2000 with 'NYC Ghosts And Flowers', 'Murray Street' is also the first album to feature Chicago experimentalist Jim O'Rourke as a full-time member of the band.
		So named after the location of their downtown NYC studio, Sonic Youth's 16th album features what the band themselves call "a new rock sound, utilizing material that was worked out in live shows during 2001, and incorporating the textures of recent (overt) avant garde explorations into a ragingly populist framework".
		Like all Sonic Youth albums, it is a result of individuals, striving in a collectivist environment, for goals that are only understood once they are achieved.
	www.hmv.co.uk /hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=93;-1;-1;-1&sku=59485 (276 words)

	NashvilleRage.com: > Sonic Youth: Murray Street - 08.08.02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		With their recording studio on Murray Street just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center, Sonic Youth got a firsthand look at the damage from the attacks on Sept. 11 when a jet engine from one of the planes landed right outside their recording space.
		Murray Street, the second of the bands' NYC-influenced trilogy, instead accomplishes the very opposite.
		This is easily their best album in more than a decade, and marks their definitive return to the rock-tinged punk roots that have made them living indie legends.
	www.nashvillerage.com /music/cds/cds2002/080802-sonicyouth.shtml (249 words)

	the wood : Sonic Youth - Murray Street - Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Their new album would be titled Washing Machine he explained; but more interestingly, he noted that the group had been considering changing their name to the very same title.
		As you've probably heard by now, the band has suggested that the album was influenced by the events that struck their hometown on September 11th.
		Murray Street (billed as the second installment in a proposed trilogy about New York City - once you record sixteen albums you're allowed to do things like that, I suppose), as it turns out, hearkens back more to the late-nineties naivety of A Thousand Leaves.
	www.the-wood.org /sonicyouth.html (762 words)

	village voice > music > Sonic Youth's Murray Street by Amy Phillips
		And there are plenty of young bands who go stale after one single or album, not to mention those groups that shouldn't have recorded anything in the first place.
		And all that talk about the influence of September 11 on the record (quoth the press release: "Murray Street is [ostensibly] named after the location of Sonic Youth's studio.
		Murray Street is where one of the engines from the planes that hit the Twin Towers landed") sure didn't amount to much beyond the album artwork.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0228/phillips2.php (1072 words)

	knot.magazine : print
		The only thing this album did was remind us that Macauly Culkin, featured in the video to the single Sunday, used to be a pretty funny kid before Hollywood took away his soul.
		I bought this album in Austin and didn't listen to it until I was ready for the mind-numbing drive north to Oklahoma City.
		It becomes evident after studying the album as a whole that maybe the past two releases were aiming for the results found on Murray Street but, for whatever reasons, missing the mark.
	www.knotmag.com /?print=402 (891 words)

	Sonic Youth - Murray Street \| Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for music reviews, interviews, articles, and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Murray Street is an indication that Thurston Moore and company have realized and accepted the movement and pending completion of the lifecycle.
		While Murray Street may lack the thorough vision of Daydream Nation or the hard, influential impact of 100%, it is nonetheless a poetic illustration of talent maturing through the ages, and continuing to deliver a unique and interesting sound.
		The album is melodic, relying more on softer tones and less on heavy guitar than previous albums, and the sound is a long way from the band's debut at the 1981 “Noise Festival”.
	www.music-critic.com /rock/sonicyouth_murraystreet.htm (642 words)

	sonic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Murray Street was a move back to familiar experimental territory and Sonic Nurse follows on from there, perhaps even becoming a little more commercial and easier on the ear.
		The main difference between Sonic Nurse and Murray Street is the thankful return of Kim Gordon.
		She has put her mark on four of the songs on this album, and perhaps unsurprisingly they are some of the best ones.
	www.nowax.co.uk /Reviews/sonic.html (407 words)

	the wood : Sonic Youth - Murray Street - Counterpoint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Murray Street is only the latest sick swivel in the S and M tango that I've been dancing with this band for the last five years.
		Murray Street sounds like a Diamond Sea that's been sterilized by an Exxon-Valdez tanker-spill of bleach: vast, empty, dreary-dull - and, even if it's impeccably clean and sort of pretty the first time you see it, dead of all life.
		Murray Street now, and have written this review so far during one of the album's many long dull stretches (these appear to have been thoughtfully provided for the sole purpose of writing reviews during).
	www.the-wood.org /sonicyouth1.html (1738 words)

	Sonic Youth: Murray Street (2002): Reviews
		Murray Street is like falling asleep with the TV on and waking to rapturous white noise.
		Consider Murray Street to be Sonic Youth's calmer, more introspective journey into the science of sound, one filled with just as many gifts as their earlier, more hard-hitting works.
		Murray Street doesn't mark an epochal moment for Sonic Youth, but its familiar nods and new ingredients--from Steve Shelley's occasionally near-funky drumming to O'Rourke's tingly laptop textures--stake out another high point for a band achieving self-realization by reconciling self-absorption with a sigh and a smile.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/sonicyouth/murraystreet (668 words)

	Morphizm.com -- Sonic Youth's Murray Street
		Which is understandable, considering that Murray Street -- both the album and physical space -- were in a constant state of repair and disrepair due to the fact that they were so near Ground Zero.
		Although some of the album was recorded prior to the September 11th attacks, that tragedy's immediate impact, its bracing reality check, its demand for endless moments of coping silence are subtexts found within each tune of Murray Street; no matter what some may call them, Sonic Youth are dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers, after all.
		As much as some may frown on Murray Street's restrained volume, so many more are applauding their relentless search for the perfect (or perfectly unsettling) aural soundscape, their ability to take brave chances and risks, and their resolute non-conformity.
	www.morphizm.com /recommends/symurraystreet.html (976 words)

	Murray Street recalls Sept. 11 - Culture
		The album — the second in a proposed trilogy on the cultural history of lower Manhattan and the follow-up to the 2000 NYC Ghosts and Flowers — is a simple, beautiful mix of fluid guitar melodies and pure gray distortion.
		Murray Street exquisitely melds Sonic Youth’s prime and mature pop sensibility with its restrained experimental leaning.
		The album is complex and intricate all the while remaining accessible and satisfying.
	media.www.dailylobo.com /media/storage/paper344/news/2002/07/11/Culture/Murray.Street.Recalls.Sept.11-258018.shtml?norewrite200701071228&sourcedomain=www.dailylobo.com (515 words)

	Sonic Youth - Murray Street (DGC)
		Murray Street starts off with Sonic Youth at their most accessible.
		Sonic Youth have put you at the bottom of a well and off in the middle of the desert, but in "Sympathy for the Strawberry," the culmination is a childlike run through a field of ripe fruit.
		I cannot approach Murray Street's approachability as I did with Goo when I was sitting in that car in that other place in that other time.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2002/sy3.shtml (714 words)

	DOA - Sonic Youth - Murray Street
		The album is the second release in the supposed trilogy of lower downtown Manhattan.
		Album closer "Sympathy for the Strawberry" is a perfect example of this indifferent musical style while still showcasing a transcendent quality.
		The avant-garde aspect of the album is heavily based on added sounds and song structures, and the pop side is primarily due to the melodic appeal of the singing and guitar riffs.
	www.adequacy.net /review.php?reviewID=3194 (757 words)

	The Morning News - Sonic Youth, Murray Street, by Andrew Womack
		Sonic Youth’s new album – their sixteenth – is named after the block in Lower Manhattan where their studio is located.
		Murray Street is also where a jet engine landed on September 11.
		Often lighthearted, the album tends toward the meandering and gentle rather than the grating and challenging.
	www.themorningnews.org /archives/albums/sonic_youth_murray_street.php (502 words)

	sonomu: Murray Street
		If you were a martian and I was trying to explain the significance of the music of Sonic Youth to you, perhaps Murray Street isn't the first album I would pick out for you to listen to.
		Murray Street is more "classic" Sonic Youth than any of their SYR output (their own label and home to their, er, more difficult music) and what you might initially think is a lack of dynamic bombasticism would probably reveal itself to be restraint.
		And this album is definitly on par with Evol/Sister
	sonomu.net /text/~murraystreet (562 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Music: Reconnection Notice
		Murray Street, the latest in a long string of DGC releases, is Sonic Youth's best album in years, and their most scorching since 1992's Dirty.
		On Murray Street, O'Rourke spends much of his time on bass, allowing Kim Gordon to join Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo on extended jams like "Rain on Tin," an ever-widening motherboard of elliptical guitar lines that erupts into a cataclysmic din of floor-tom abuse, courtesy of Steve Shelley.
		Austin Chronicle: The circumstances surrounding the recording of Murray Street at the time of 9/11 make for quite a story in light of your studio being blocks from ground zero.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-08-02/music_feature4.html (1300 words)

	Sonic Youth - Murray Street Review - sputnikmusic
		Murray Street is a strange and interesting album.
		The album has a clean, mature sound and itâs an obvious hint to classic rock (aw come on, listen to A Thousand Leaves and tell me that doesnât have some sort of psychedelic edge).
		All in all, this album is worth it, no itâs not an amazing album or even one of Sonic Youthâs best but it certainly is enjoyable to an extent.
	www.sputnikmusic.com /review_9563 (809 words)

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