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Lots of threads about when it's being released but now that it finally has, not much seems to have been said about it on here.
Got the book and the deluxe ed. CD on the same day, so great to read and listen at the same time.
Great job on the CD, but enough has been said about that already.
Anyway, found the book almost unreadable. The author keeps banging on about how 'dangerous' the album is: making SY out to be some kind of noise-rock Baader Meinhoff, or something. This quote sums up the tone:
'To listen to [the album's producer] Sansano talk about a recording session with Sonic Youth is like listening to a soldier talk about the experience of frontline warfare.'
The discussions of individual tracks are just as silly. Take for example his account of 'Rain King', in which, 'The lyrics are a volcanic torrent of language meant more as artillery in a battle being waged against an opponent (who is this Rain King?) that can no longer be ignored or tolerated.'
God knows what the band itself must think of it all.
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