Plasma & Veganism: a review

I was dazing off to music this lazy hot afternoon, just to forget the long day, until my mom had scared the shit out of me by somehow popping up in my room quietly.

The album I was listening to was NYC Ghosts & Flowers by Sonic Youth.



Thought I'd review this since I haven't done a review in awhile and this album is vastly underrated by other great Sonic Youth albums such as Sister, Daydream Nation, Goo, and Dirty.

On we go.

Free City Rhymes : Starts off with a spooky like setting with haunting guitar work which later transitions into experimental rock that Sonic Youth is notable for. It'll continue on until it fades out into a noise jam & the same guitar intro from the beginning. Great space out track.

Renegade Princess : It begins slowly by Thurston Moore's vocals until it builds up slowly but surely to punk rock status. It lasts for a brief minute until it fades out to distorted guitars. Marginal at best track.

Nevermind (What Was It Anyway) : A little infectious guitar beat sets the stage for Kim Gordon's vocals for two minutes. The track later goes into noise jam session followed by angst ridden lyrics 'till we get distorted guitar ending once more. You could live without the track if you wanted to.

Small Flowers Crack Concrete : A change of pace in this album made by Lee Ranaldo dark lyrics (I like to call him the George Harrison of Sonic Youth.) Ranaldo performs the song by spoken word while Moore says the chorus & the rest of the band goes by their own pace. One of the stand out tracks.

Side2side : Noise jam with a whispering Kim Gordon. To me, it just faded in with the previous track. Not necessary but worth a listen.

StreamXSonik Subway : Another dark track backed by angry guitar work. Cathy at best track with space rock elements. Slightly undercooked but its an susceptible listen.

NYC Ghosts & Flowers : Why must every album have to contain a title track? Usually I consider them to cheesy at best but I usually try to absorb it if its any good. this is one of them. Another Ranaldo track with his usual underlying dark themes of cynicism backed by eerie guitar work. Another stand out track.

Lightnin' : I found this to be a pointless, useless instrumental track. A bad song to close the album.

In conclusion, its a good album if you want to get into Sonic Youths obscure deep cut albums. Worth the pick up at a record store used. Brand new? Save your money unless its cheap.

But anyways...get out of bed right now 'cause a teen age riot is out there waiting for ya.

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