Sonic Nurse

After twenty-three years of explosive creativity Sonic Youth throws down what may be their heaviest classic since the genre-breaking Daydream Nation. Nurse is the nineteenth long player by the New York City supernova, an action explosion Time magazine has already tagged as Sonic Youth s most adventurous and soul-stirring release to date, by a goddamn country mile. Ten songs of American beauty and sonic death: on Pattern Recognition Kim Gordon takes Justin Timberlake s hand and sticks it in a tendon-shredding meat grinder; they gay marriage the hell out of religious zealot war pigs Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush and Ashcroft with the meditative Peace Attack ; Bare Trees-era Fleetwood Mac jams with Jealous Again-era Black Flag on the heart-pounding Unmade Bed and I Love You Golden Blue ; the core reactor awesomeness of Paper Cup Exit reduces such legends as Led Zeppelin and Yes to just so much British schoolboy whimpering.