Sonic Youth
The Destroyed Room B-Sides And Rarities
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo
- Label
- Goofin' Records · goo-012
krautrock
Rock Indie RockExperimentalAvantgardeNoise Rock
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Pere Ubu The Modern Dance Pere Ubu directly inspired Sonic Youth — the Cleveland noise-rock lineage runs from The Modern Dance into the alternate-tuning approach Sonic Youth built their method on. -
Neu! Neu! Sonic Youth's approach connects back to Krautrock through Glenn Branca, who took from Tony Conrad, who played with John Cale, who produced the first Stooges album, which influenced the same Krautrock bands Neu! emerged from. The loop closes.
The Destroyed Room (2007) is B-sides and rarities — the Sonic Youth record for people who already know the main catalogue, material that didn’t fit elsewhere gathered into something that functions more as an atmosphere than an album.
Sonic Youth’s method — Glenn Branca-derived alternate tunings, Lee Ranaldo’s drone work, Thurston Moore’s noise vocabulary — connects back through its genealogy to the Krautrock lineage. Branca took ideas from Tony Conrad; Conrad was in the Theatre of Eternal Music with John Cale; Cale produced the first Stooges album; the Stooges’ Detroit noise influenced the Krautrock bands, including Neu! and Can. The loop closes: Sonic Youth and the Krautrock records share lineage through a chain that runs from the late ’60s through the early ’90s without breaking.