Sonic Youth — The Destroyed Room: B-sides And Rarities

Featuring a series of one-offs, studio improvisations and elusive "European-only" gems, The Destroyed Room will likely find a happy home on the shelves of many rabid Sonic Youth completists. With a few exceptions, most of the material was recorded after 1999, but it's certainly worth a listen for fans of the group's experimental or instrumental stuff. The material varies from the lazy ditty "Razor Blade" to the minimally electronic "Campfire" and more traditional and predictably epic noise jam, "The Diamond Sea," which, according to the liner notes, the band performed every night during the 1995 Lollapalooza tour. Gordon's trance-like singing on the folky "Blink" provides The Destroyed Room's trippiest and transcendent moments.

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