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Review title: only for the initiates
Product review: People new to Sonic Youth should not start here. There are patches of the brilliance long-time fans of SY expect, but this album does not shape the fragments, ideas, and melodies into finished songs, or at least not bite-size ones. That was probably not their intent, and fair enough, but the result is an album only their most dedicated fans will enjoy.The best SY albums aim both low and high, at true believers and at newcomers, whereas this album is all on the 'high' side. I wish they had evened things out a bit by spending more time perfecting the raw material here -- I think a great album of 9 or 10 more conventional songs could easily have been made from the experiments captured here.
