Sonic Youth Featuring Kim Gordon/DJ Olive/Ikue Mori - SYR 5

Title: SYR 5 Artist: Sonic Youth Featuring Kim Gordon/DJ Olive/Ikue Mori Release Date: 2000 Label: Syr UPC: 787996900520 Genre: Rock Styles: Indie Rock, Noise-Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock Moods: Cerebral, Detached, Intense, Sprawling, Volatile, Atmospheric, Complex, Fiery, Hypnotic, Spooky, Tense/Anxious, Visceral, Cathartic, Difficult, Eerie, Enigmatic, Ethereal, Literate, Restrained, Ambitious, Elaborate, Ironic, Refined/Mannered, Stylish, Trippy, Uncompromising, Wintry Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 3 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Olive's Horn
2. International Spy
3. Neu Adult
4. Paperbag/Orange Laptop
5. Stuck on Gum
6. Fried Mushroom
7. What Do You Want? (Kim)
8. Lemonade
9. We Are the Princesses
10. Take Me Back
11. Take It to the Hit

Year Type Label Catalog # 2000 CD Syr 5

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The fifth release in Sonic Youth's SYR series doesn't even feature Sonic Youth at all, but rather an avant-garde power trio of Sy bassist Kim Gordon, turntablist DJ Olive, and programming electro-goddess Ikue Mori. The music is ultra-abstract and mood-driven, filling the listening space with a dark ambience constructed by Olive's incredibly resonant choice of samples and Mori's carefully tweaked bleeps. Gordon predictably contributes with a dose of noise guitar, though the source of sounds on this disc is heartily confusing -- Gordon calling into question the identity of the electric guitar while Olive and Mori try to carve out identities for their respective instruments. Throughout, Gordon contributes a free vocal style she has been experimenting with since the first SYR discs, released in 1998, and on the two intervening Sonic Youth albums, A Thousand Leaves (1998) and NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000). In combination with the lyrics, which dance the line between abstract poetry and frustrating downtown pretentiousness, many might find Gordon's vocal approach quite grating. It is more than made up for, though, by the utterly weird and compelling soundscapes the group creates -- a true headphone head trip. Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda contributes on "Take Me Back." ~ Jesse Jarnow, All Music Guide

Name Credits DJ Olive Turntables, Songwriter Ikue Mori Songwriter, Programming Jim O'Rourke Mixing Kim Gordon Songwriter, Vocals, Guitar (Electric) Wharton Tiers Engineer Yuka Honda Programming, Songwriter