09 May 2009

On the beach

Late thought on Sonic Youth as the great unacknowledged Californian group (as argued below): that characteristic technique of theirs, that intense micro-thrash on one or two strings that blurs into a drone – the other place you hear it is, of course, surf rock: Dick Dale et al.

You can read Marcello Carlin's take on SY here.

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