body/head -vs- chelsea light moving

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

Body/Head is the best post-SY band/proj for me and it isn't even close

agreed, and The Switch is my favorite of theirs so far

Oh, thanks. I'm loving this so far.

Although it was released in summer, it felt really right for the cold, grey winter day.

yeah, this is good, I'd only listened to the first album before this and didn't really like it much

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.

Body/Head is like the first Sonic Youth anything I really fucks with after the SST era

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.”

(Should’ve read over that before hitting “post.”)

The Switch is no joke. I wrote about it back in July:

https://www.spin.com/2018/07/body-head-the-switch-review/

thanks, Raymond! I enjoyed reading that

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.