Track from the new sonic youth album

Well, there you have it. 7 minutes gone by.

It could use more shards of hyperfractured beat play.

from what I heard of it at ATP, IT WILL ROCK.

I think this song is not bad. The intro, the first two minutes, are quite beautiful. Is there a voice sample in there? The song itself is all right. I might find it more interesting if they incorporated more of the materials from the intro into the song proper. Like, put some effects on the voice or have bits of the drones or bleeps running through the track. But it's not a bad song.

I listened to the first Bardo Pond tracks, which I think I actually like more. Pretty heavy, noisy sludge shit with the voice and flute a nice foil to the grind.

Now I've finished listening to the first two Threnody Ensemble tracks. I wasn't familiar with this group before. I like how they use the loose sparse sounds with the chord progressions slowly pieced together. "Tension As Opposed to Tension" has some nice interesting intricate guitar work in it. "ThaRoman pt 1" just came on. I like the thick dense drones. They might actually work better than those in the Sonic Youth. Now the repetitive keyboard hook with the strings fading in and out. This is all quite nice. It sounds like post-rock informed by contemporary composed and improvised music, which comes off pretty well by its standards. The loop sounds increasingly yearning. Now they just broke it to go into a tenser droney section. The ultra-gradual fade-out is handled expertly.

Sundar, you always seem to really LISTEN to yr music!

I liked that song 'Unmade Bed' that they played at ATP