Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse LP

Sonic Nurse is Sonic Youth's 15th album. With Jim O'Rourke continuing his role as the 'fifth sonic', the album feels like the logical continuation of the ground established with "Murray Street", but through the revisitation of "vintage" sonic tunings, mixes the complexity of the quintet dynamic with a familiar overtone (just over half of the album is written in the modified 'Pavement tuning' that premiered on 'Murray Street', while the other half features tunings such as GGDDD#D#, which date back to "Kill Yr Idols", and the classic "Expressway" tuning EG#EG#EG#). Unlike the previous two albums, "Nurse" clocks in over an hour, with ten tracks, most featuring extended instrumental extrapolations.