Sonic Youth – Sonic Nurse

This is a hard album to review really. This will be Sonic Youth’s 19th LP and by now you should have already cemented your thoughts on them. Throughout their incredible career they have done loads of experimenting with their various side projects and there own avant garde EPs on their own label. Sonic Youth have become an institution of solid music, with new stuff always around the corner. Bands like Guided By Voices and Sonic Youth are really inspirational due to the amount of material they make and how much of it is fucking brilliant. “Sonic Nurse” follows in the same vein as ” Murry Street ” it is more of a stable return to form. There are no 15 minutes of feedback or anything like that. It’s a return to much more stable and structured songs. If you’re a fan, this is an essential pick up. If you have never heard of Sonic Youth before get towards their earlier work and then make your way down to the more recent stuff. After 19 albums they still have it and they still have some brilliant material left in them.

By John Siwicki

Supergrass – Supergrass Is Ten: The Best Of 94-04

It has been ten years since Supergrass busted out onto the scene with such hits as “Alright” and “Caught By The Fuzz.” They were in the middle of the whole Brit pop phenomenon, yet, they survived it all to become one of England ’s finest rock bands.
Its hard to know where to start there is just so much on this album. There are twenty one perfect pop gems on here. “Moving”,”Richard III” and “Grace” are all wonderful sings that are fun to sing a long with and are even songs mom could grow to love. The appeal of Supergrass is endless. Also of note is the new single “Kiss of Life” the song strays away a little bit from their formula but it still has that same feel. It belongs right up here with there other songs.
Not many bands could created a greatest hits quite like this one. From start to finish there is never a dull moment.

By John Siwicki