For anyone who knows me, I was a Sonic Youth fan. I still am, just not as much and this release is a pretty good example why I'm not as interested in them as I was Goo-era.
The first track "Sacred Trickster" just has that pretty classic Sonic Youth vibe. Kim Gordon sings on this with that same "I forgot my cough drops" voice. What really strikes me are the lyrics. They barely make any sense, to my knowing. "I wish I could be/music on a tree". Maybe it's something I really have to visualize and look into to really get an understanding. "Anti-Orgasm" didn't really impress me. I'm just really not digging Thurston Moore's vocals. I never did. Again, weird lyrics "Anti-war is anti-orgasm", I don't know about you, but to me, being against war isn't the same as being against sexual climaxes. And this time the vocals are waaaaay too upfront. I'd love to hear more music. "Antenna" is supposedly the single of this and I really don't know why. It sounds exactly the same as everything else on this. Everything else just has this structure where it goes from a song to a somewhat noisy outro but the noise isn't there. That's a critical thing The Eternal is missing.
I don't know. Maybe I need to give this another chance. Who knows? Maybe Sonic Youth just never was my thing. But, I'll give credit to them because I know that this album was what they really wanted to make and they probably thought that this was really good. People's tastes these days.
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