Sonic Youth Rarities Album May Be Last With Geffen

Sonic Youth have revealed the songs that will appear on their forthcoming album, The Destroyed Room: B-sides And Rarities.

The record will be released by Geffen on CD on December 12 and a double-vinyl version will be made available early next year on the band's own Goofin' Records label. It will include tracks from foreign album releases, B-sides and previously unreleased material.

The Destroyed Room is the last album that's part of Sonic Youth's current contract with Geffen, their label home since 1990, and it's unknown whether the band will resign with the label or search out a new deal elsewhere. Bassist/vocalist Kim Gordon doesn't seem optimistic about continuing with Geffen, according to a recent interview she gave to Billboard.com.

"I don't really think they want us to stay," she said. "They fired a few key people working on [2006 album Rather Ripped] a week before it came out. Our A&R person — he worked on our last record with us, and that was the first time we had an A&R person in five years, but we liked him. Also a marketing person who had really good ideas. So, I don't know."

Here are the songs on The Destroyed Room: B-sides And Rarities:

"Fire Engine Dreams" (Sonic Nurse outtake, previously unreleased)
"Fauxhemians" (from All Tomorrow's Parties 1.1)
"Is It My Body?" (from Alice Cooper Tribute)
"Razor Blade" ("Bull In The Heather" B-side)
"Blink" (from Pola X soundtrack)
"Campfire" (from At Home With The Groovebox)
"Loop Cat" (from You Can Never Go Fast Enough)
"Kim's Chords" (from Sonic Nurse Japan edition)
"Beautiful Plateau" (from Sonic Nurse Japan edition)
"Three Part Sectional Love Seat" (from The Noho Furniture Sessions, previously unreleased)
"Queen Anne Chair" (from the Noho Furniture Sessions, previously unreleased)
"The Diamond Sea" (Washing Machine LP version)