ARTIST: Sonic Youth
TITLE: Rather Ripped
LABEL: Geffen
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 208kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 51min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-06-13
RIP DATE: 2006-05-01

Track List

01. Reena                           3:47
02. Incinerate                      4:55
03. Do You Believe In Rapture?      3:11
04. Sleepin Around                  3:42
05. What A Waste                    3:33
06. Jams Run Free                   3:52
07. Rats                            4:24
08. Turquoise Boy                   6:14
09. Lights Out                      3:32
10. The Neutral                     4:09
11. Pink Stream                     6:57
12. Or                              3:31

Release Notes:

Sonic Youth will release its next album, "Rather Ripped," June 13 via Geffen. As
previously reported, the 12-track set is the band's first to not feature longtime
collaborator Jim O'Rourke since 1998's "A Thousand Leaves." Sonic Youth will
support the set via several July dates with Pearl Jam and is also eyeing a run
with the Flaming Lips.

"Rather Ripped" kicks off with the Kim Gordon-sung rocker "Reena" and in general
offers more of a concise attack than on recent, more jam-oriented releases such
as "Murray Street" and "Sonic Nurse." Gordon is more of a vocal presence as
well, singing lead on five tracks, including the gentle "Turquoise Boy," which
is dirtied up with bursts of noise at its conclusion.

Other highlights include Thurston Moore's propulsive "Incinerate," which seems
evolved from the Sonic Youth classic "Teenage Riot," and the Lee Ranaldo-sung
"Rats," which blends a dark Gordon bass grove with thick sheets of guitar.

"Some of it seems to be an extension of the last couple of records, but some
hearkens forward into territory and also back to earlier, more dissonant and
atonal stuff we've done," Ranaldo told Billboard.com last fall of the new
material. "There's definitely some rocking songs and also some sound piece-y
kind of things that are pretty interesting as well."