New/Sealed
GOOFIN RECORDS 0000018
UPC: 787996801810
Release Date: 4/14/2015
 
Vinyl LP repressing including digital download that features the album plus four bonus tracks. Reissue of Sonic Youth's second full-length album, originally released in 1985. The album is a fascinating examination of "the junction where hippie idealism [meets] the cold hard world," says guitarist Lee Ranaldo, "where Woodstock [meets] Altamont-Death Valley, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, musicians, murderers, heroes and villains." It's original eight-song tapestry of droning guitar feedback, distant clattering percussion, and sullen vocals, all held together with interstitial noise loops and shadowy haze, ambles through a long, dark night before the feverish "Death Valley '69," driven by runaway guitar riffs and a frantic Thurston Moore/Lydia Lunch vocal duet, pounds the capstone into place.
 
Tracklist:
 
1 Intro
2 Brave Men Run (In My Family)
3 Society Is a Hole
4 I Love Her All the Time
5 Ghost Bitch
6 I M Insane
7 Justice Is Might
8 Death Valley 69