Be on the lookout for Thurston Moore's new album By the Fire, out on Friday.
The album has been getting rave reviews, with reviewers calling it some of his best recorded material, if not his best yet (Sonic Youth included).
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I'm starting to believe the hype, considering how much I enjoyed even the material that won't be part of the album, like:
Anyway, here's the most recent advance track from the album, Siren:
And, the previous one (and my favourite so far):
I can't say I particularly cared much for Sonic Youth's later material, but his post-Sonic Youth albums with the Thurston Moore Group (which includes My Bloody Valentine's Deb Googe on bass, and Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley on drums, among others) are great stuff.
I bought their first album right after I caught the band at a festival, and since then every album has been worth the wait.
A few examples from the previous two albums he recorded with the new band: