In/Out/In

ファン垂涎の未発表レア音源集『In/Out/In』が蔵出しリリース!

USインディを象徴する存在として今もなお後進に影響を与え続けるソニック・ユース。2000年から2010年にかけて録音されたレア音源がこの度蔵出しリリース!2008年、リー・ラナルドがマサチューセッツ州ノーサンプトンで録音した"Basement Contender"からニューヨークのエコー・キャニオンでアーロン・ミューランが録音した"Out & In"まで、全5曲収録。

ソニック・ユース最後の10年間に残されたこれらの音源は、最後のスタジオ作となった『The Eternal』の陰にある膨大なアイデアとシーケンスを伺わせるのに十分。

In the 2000s, Sonic Youth seemed to find the perfect balance between the challenging and accessible poles of their music. As they ranged from Murray St.s contemplation to The Eternals formidable rock, they sounded in touch with their past and eager to push forward, a feeling that extends to In/Out/In. Released by Three Lobed -- which issued many projects from the bands members over the years -- this collection of largely unreleased tracks reflects all the different kinds of music they made in their final decade. Recorded in 2008 at Kim Gordon and Thurston Moores home in Northampton, Massachusetts, "Basement Contender" is a mellow, rolling showcase for Moore and Lee Ranaldos guitar interplay with a pastoral warmth that becomes a blaze of distortion in the final moments of its nine-minute length. By contrast, "Machine," also recorded during The Eternal sessions, is crunchy and tense, packing as much feedback and fractured atonal riffing into its three and a half minutes as possible. The bands chemistry sounds especially potent on "Out & In," a hypnotic churn recorded with Jim ORourke in 2000 that resembles the intro of Daydream Nations "Candle" exploded into a 12-minute epic. "Social Static," another 2000 track recorded with ORourke, dives into the groups noisiest territory with thick slabs of fuzz, plunging guitars, and squealing effects; that the most chaotic track here was also the score to a film is pure Sonic Youth. On moments like this, In/Out/In resembles the SYR series (which the band also revived in the 2000s), but those releases sometimes felt like a more conscious effort for the group to return to their experimental bona fides in the wake of their mainstream success. The ease that Sonic Youth display on every track here is particularly appealing on 2010s "In & Out" (which, like "Out & In," originally appeared on the Three Lobed box set Not the Spaces You Know, But Between Them). No single element of the track is especially flashy, but the combination of Steve Shelleys delicately galloping stickwork, the heat shimmer guitar textures and harmonics, and Gordons stream-of-consciousness crooned whispers is magnetic. The next best thing to sitting in on a Sonic Youth jam session, In/Out/In distills the bands essence so brilliantly that fans will fall in love all over again. ~ Heather Phares