Vinyl LP repressing including digital download that
features the album plus four bonus tracks. Reissue of Sonic Youth's
second full-length album, originally released in 1985. The album is a
fascinating examination of "the junction where hippie idealism [meets]
the cold hard world," says guitarist Lee Ranaldo, "where Woodstock
[meets] Altamont-Death Valley, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, musicians,
murderers, heroes and villains." It's original eight-song tapestry of
droning guitar feedback, distant clattering percussion, and sullen
vocals, all held together with interstitial noise loops and shadowy
haze, ambles through a long, dark night before the feverish "Death
Valley '69," driven by runaway guitar riffs and a frantic Thurston
Moore/Lydia Lunch vocal duet, pounds the capstone into place.