
Goofin
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
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First
complete
Sonic
Youth
album
is
one
of
Thurston
Moore’s
favorites.
Includes
live
cover
of
The
Stooges’
“I
Wanna
Be
Your
Dog”.
Vinyl
includes
digital
download.
Originally
slated
to
be
a
7”
to
follow
up
their
self-titled
debut,
Sonic
Youth’s
Confusion
Is
Sex
blossomed
into
the
band’s
first
album:
a
brain-bludgeoning,
completely
fried
endeavor
of
dissonance
and
disarray,
a
perfect
soundtrack
for
running
from
a
chainwielding
gang
near
the
SIN
Club.
This
was
the
sound
of
1983
New
York
City,
nothing
like
the
jangly
roots
of
college
radio
rock
starting
to
formulate
in
Athens,
Georgia.
It
sounded
like
no
one
else
on
Earth,
for
that
matter.
The
raw,
Wharton
Tiers
8-track
production
is
dark,
the
Kim
Gordon-
scrawled
cover
figure
art
of
Thurston
Moore
is
dark,
Lee
Ranaldo’s
back
cover
photo-collage
and
Catherine
Ceresole’s
crumpled-xeroxed
images
that
adorned
the
inside
are
dark.
It’s
an
album
that
moves
Sonic
Youth
forward
from
their
first
EP
almost
by
devolving
backwards
into
true
ugly,
lo-fi
primitivity.
The
bareboned
arsenal
of
junkpile
guitars
and
implementation
of
alternate
tunings
was
growing,
and
so
were
the
songs
that
matched
the
individual
attributes
of
each
instrument:
certain
ones
groan
and
growl
a
specific
way
that
the
band
started
to
realize
itself
could
become
the
compositional
germ
of
a
song.
Herein
is
the
threshold
of
a
new
explosion
of
the
band’s
creativity,
replacing
the
comparatively
cleaner
buzz
of
the
Sonic
Youth
EP
with
guitars
that
spew
fractured,
uglier
chunks
of
sound
everywhere,
held
down
by
menacing
minimalist
basslines
(actually
played
by
Thurston
on
half
of
this
LP,
and
for
the
only
time
ever
on
“Protect
Me
You,”
Lee)
and
the
brutal-yet-controlled
metronomic
drumming
of
Jim
Sclavunos,
augmented
with
replacement
drummer
Bob
Bert’s
notable
bashing
on
“Making
the
Nature
Scene”
and
grotty
no-fi
live
rendition
of
“I
Wanna
Be
Your
Dog.”
Hearing
the
crashed
window
intro
of
“Inhuman”
and
subway-brake
screech
of
“The
World
Looks
Red,”
you
can
attest
that
while
Sonic
Youth’s
guitars
are
not
quite
yet
being
utilized
in
the
totally
controlled,
lyrical
fashion
seen
later
on
albums
like
Evol,
Daydream
Nation
et
al.,
they
were
well
aware
of
the
colors
and
tonalities
that
were
unfolding
and
the
possibilities
presented.
Also,
they
were
getting
a
grasp
on
adding
colors
to
the
chaos
with
tempered,
simmering
moments
like
Gordon’s
“Shaking
Hell”
and
Renaldo’s
chimy,
home-taped
“Lee
is
Free.”
“Making
the
Nature
Scene”
and
“The
World
Looks
Red”
even
toss
in
glints
of
hip-hop
vocal
approach
way
ahead
of
its
time,
albeit
through
a
blender.
While
its
confrontationalism
might
have
put
off
some
critics,
time
has
rewarded
Confusion
with
a
truly
distinctive
air
and
atmosphere
in
the
Sonic
discography,
enough
to
have
Moore
declare
it
his
fave
along
with
the
band’s
swan-song
The
Eternal.
Brian
Turner,
WFMU.
Track
Listing
1
(She’s
In
A)
Bad
Mood
2
Protect
Me
You
3.
Freezer
Burn
/
I
Wanna
Be
Your
Dog
4
Shaking
Hell
5
Inhuman
6
The
World
Looks
Red
7
Confusion
Is
Next
8
Making
The
Nature
Scene
9.
Lee
Is
Free
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