Track Listing
1. Empty Page
2. Disconnection Notice
3. Rain On Tin
4. Karen Revisited
5. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
6. Plastic Sun
7. Sympathy For The Strawberry
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Sonic Youth | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Sonic Youth: Thurston Moore (vocals, guitar, tack piano); Lee Ranaldo (vocals, guitar, Hammond B-3 organ, melodica); Kim Gordon (vocals, guitar, bass, dilruba); Jim O'Rourke (guitar, bass, electronics); Steve Shelley (accordion, drums, sarangi, percussion).Additional personnel: Donald Dietrich, James Sauter (saxophone).Recorded at Echo Canyon, New York, New York between August 2001 & March 2002.
Editorial Reviews
Included in CMJ's list of Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time
CMJ (01/06/2003)
Included in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2002
Rolling Stone (12/26/2002)
...The strongest rock disc the group has churned out since at least the mid-'90s, and it marks a turnabout from the free-form experimentation of their recent work...
CMJ (06/24/2002)
...A joyful return to their No Wave hardcore rock roots with a vibrating set of muscular songs which glide effortlessly from gooey power pop to full on guitarmageddon meltdown...
The Wire (06/01/2002)
...A disc that interweaves their populist and elitist obsessions with more balance and cohesion than ever...
Mojo (07/01/2002)
...A near perfect, guitar-shaped phoenix...a balance--between formlessness and structure, melody and cacophony... - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (06/28/2002)
6 out of 10- ...They reaffirmed their art-punk cred...this time around, the band square their artier tendencies with their sweet tooth for classic psych-rock, slipping New Yawk punk solos and acid-folk riffs half remembered from old Grateful Dead records...
Spin (08/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...MURRAY STREET is an essay in coolly assured, sophisticated leftfield rock...full of scintillating tunes....A lightness of touch that renders this their finest album since DAYDREAM NATION.
Q (06/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...Achieves that rare thing for any band - real consistency. It's the band's gift to its broken home, a set of good songs, a lesson in reconciliation.
Rolling Stone (07/25/2002)
Ranked #1 (Album of the Year) on CMJ's Top 10 of 2002
CMJ (12/30/2002)
Ranked #63 in Uncut's 100 Best Albums of the Year
Uncut (01/01/2003)
Ranked #7 on EW's list of 2002's Albums of the Year
Entertainment Weekly
Included in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2002Entertainment Weekly (12/20-27/02, p.128) - Ranked #7 on EW's list of 2002's Albums of the YearUncut (1/03, p.97) - Ranked #63 in Uncut's 100 Best Albums of the YearCMJ (12/30/02, p.8) - Ranked #1 (Album of the Year) on CMJ's Top 10 of 2002CMJ (1/6/03, p.20) - Included in CMJ's list of Top 25 College Radio Albums of All TimeRolling Stone (7/25/02, p.74) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...Achieves that rare thing for any band - real consistency. It's the band's gift to its broken home, a set of good songs, a lesson in reconciliation.Q (6/02, p.123) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...MURRAY STREET is an essay in coolly assured, sophisticated leftfield rock...full of scintillating tunes....A lightness of touch that renders this their finest album since DAYDREAM NATION.Spin (8/02, p.109) - 6 out of 10- ...They reaffirmed their art-punk cred...this time around, the band square their artier tendencies with their sweet tooth for classic psych-rock, slipping New Yawk punk solos and acid-folk riffs half remembered from old Grateful Dead records...Entertainment Weekly (6/28/02, p.142) - ...A near perfect, guitar-shaped phoenix...a balance--between formlessness and structure, melody and cacophony... - Rating: A-Mojo (7/02, p.92) - ...A disc that interweaves their populist and elitist obsessions with more balance and cohesion than ever...The Wire (06/02, p.53) - ...A joyful return to their No Wave hardcore rock roots with a vibrating set of muscular songs which glide effortlessly from gooey power pop to full on guitarmageddon meltdown...CMJ (6/24/02, p.5) - ...The strongest rock disc the group has churned out since at least the mid-'90s, and it marks a turnabout from the free-form experimentation of their recent work...
Rolling Stone (12/26/2002)
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