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| | Sonic Youth: NYC Ghosts & Flowers ---Ink Blot Magazine |
 | | Ciccone Youth, Two Dollar Guitar, Free Kitten, Lee Ranaldo, William Hooker, Velvet Monkeys, The Crucifucks, Cat Power, Nels Cline, Thurston Moore, In Limbo, The Coachmen, Mats Gustafsson, William Winant, J Mascis, Kim Deal, Pavement, Half Japanese, Mike Watt, Borbetomagus, Shonen Knife, Puzzled Panthers, Jim O'Rourke |
 | | The band's long identified with forces outside rock 'n' roll, and this record's topical and visual focus (lyrics about Lenny Bruce and busted beatniks, cover art by William S. Burroughs) situates them within the larger NYC art community. |
 | | Secondly, the presence of Rafael Toral, William Winant, and co-producer Jim O'Rourke, who've all worked on Youth-oriented side projects, brings this record closer than any previous mass-market Sonic Youth album to the avant-garde sound that's always popped up in their extracurricular work. |
| www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Sonic_Youth_NYC.htm (434 words) |
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