After a brief intro, Bad Moon Rising kicks in proper with "Brave Men Run", which is impassive acid-rock for the brave new world of noise-rock, eventually ending in tentative feedback distortions. "Society Is A Hole" is a metallic nightmare, a metronomic clang frenzy. "I Love Her All The Time" (the first major highlight) is anti-kraut-rock for mesmerized nihilists, metaphysical blues-psychedelia for intellectual punks. "Ghost Bitch" is a dystopian no-chant, sang by the no-wave queen herself, Lydia Lunch. "I'm Insane" is a menacing garagebilly stomp played at erratic speeds and rotating elliptically, which ends with white noise and short-circuited frequencies, out of which surfaces a spectral mechanical chant. Through such cacophonous environments, "Justice Is Might" feels almost like an anthem, but then disappears in the dissonant abstract. The album appears to be going nowhere (in a good sense) before the wild unrestrained rock 'n' roll "Death Valley '69" (the second major highlight) brings Sonic Youth back from terra incognita into the familiar (but still threatening) musical constellations. Get it here.
4 comments:
This is probably their best album. I love it.
I am still deliberating with myself on that one. -)
Thanx a lot, I like the way you write as well.
Thanks. -)
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