this thread seems full of blank spaces, but...
the Body/Head album “The Switch” is eerie and amorphous and is really great imo. I never got around to listening to SYR 6, 7, 8, 9 (although this recording has echoes in what I’ve heard from the earlier SYR stuff), but I was so disappointed by Sonic Youth’s two post-O’Rourke albums that I thought I had lost interest in them, and any future projects related to them, forever. This reminds me of the aspects of their music I always loved, and why for 20 years I thought that they were the best band ever
― Dan S, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 03:40 (five years ago) link
Body/Head is the best post-SY band/proj for me and it isn't even close
― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
agreed, and The Switch is my favorite of theirs so far
― sleeve, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Oh, thanks. I'm loving this so far.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 16:12 (five years ago) link
Although it was released in summer, it felt really right for the cold, grey winter day.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
yeah, this is good, I'd only listened to the first album before this and didn't really like it much
― silverfish, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
i've enjoyed the thurston / lee post-SY solo stuff i've heard, but it usually makes me just want to listen to SY. body/head definitely is more interesting / involving. need to dig in more with the new one.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Body/Head is like the first Sonic Youth anything I really fucks with after the SST era
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
I dug the set I play Thurston (and his band) play last month — felt like an hour-long version of “Elegy for All the Dead Rock Stars.”
― spastic heritage, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
(Should’ve read over that before hitting “post.”)
― spastic heritage, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
The Switch is no joke. I wrote about it back in July:
https://www.spin.com/2018/07/body-head-the-switch-review/
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 02:12 (five years ago) link
thanks, Raymond! I enjoyed reading that
― Dan S, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:06 (five years ago) link
Ha, we have opposite seasonal responses to this album!:
Consciously or unconsciously, Body/Head’s latest is indisputably an album for or about summertime, a No Wave mirror held up to our present, perspiring moment.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 03:54 (five years ago) link