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Walls Have Ears (March 2024 Reissue) Sonic Youth

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Release date: Mar 22, 2024
Catalogue number: GOO023LPXX
Barcode: 0657628443933

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Very limited indies only new yellow & red vinyl edition. “Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent 
time in the band’s story, Sonic Youth’s The Walls Have Ears appeared / disappeared as a 2LP set in 1986, not just a live album but an 
artful tapestry full of live experimentation with songs, between-song tape segues, darkness, humor and audio verité. It’s now issued for 
the first time officially under the band’s auspices. “The ’85 shows were the second time the band appeared on UK soil, Brits now getting 
juiced to the mythos of the emerging guitar-slinging American independent underground; an art / punk band from NYC sporting casual 
attitudes and tees sporting Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and Prince made some good press copy on top of their bludgeoning stage 
appearance. Paul Smith of the newly-founded Blast First label acted as an overseas diplomatic envoy for Sonic Youth through their 
SST years as well as issuing their classic 1988 Daydream Nation outside the USA. However the Smith-produced ‘bootleg’ of their ’85 
UK gigs surfaced much to everyone’s surprise, just before EVOL was to be released. It turned out to be a marker of the group’s 
dissatisfaction that ultimately led to the release’s deletion, and the band and Smith parting ways after Daydream. “In this 2LP set 
brimming with primitive classics like ‘The Burning Spear,’ ‘Death Valley 69,’ and ‘I’m Insane’ (uncredited on sleeve), segues and live 
guitar changes ooze together threaded by Madonna tapes and vocal loops off the board (somewhat a necessity for distraction until the 
band had a full fledged stage crew to prepare guitars). The first two sides of Walls are massive, cavernous, with newly-drafted 
drummer Steve Shelley. SY tear it up especially on one trash-fi excerpt of ‘Blood On Brighton Beach’ (actually ‘Making The Nature 
Scene’) from a legendary outdoor gig November 8th where [Thurston] Moore, [Kim] Gordon and [Lee] Ranaldo’s guitars treble-blast 
dissonant shockwaves over the black-stoned beach of Quadrophenia fame. “The record’s second slab spotlights an April 1985 at 
London’s Hammersmith Palais and was one of the final appearances live of Bob Bert on drums, again featuring some molten takes on 
‘Brother James,’ ‘Flower’ (listed as ‘The Word (E.V.O.L.)’), and others. This document remains an essential representation of some 
lean and mean years of the quartet’s throttling march out into the world.” 

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