3 keepers
keeper avg .429
Murray Street begins in low-key fashion with Thurston Moore's wistful "The Empty Page"****, followed by his somber but mid-tempo "Disconnection Notice." Moore's third track, "Rain On Tin"****, is the sort of loose and extended but accessible sonic journey Sonic Youth fans dream about, which periodically meanders into 3-guitar textures and coalesces again around a new, memorable riff, like a camera going into and out of focus. "Karen Revisited"**** is Lee Ronaldo's only vocal track, but the infectious combination of Moore's pleasantly droning riffs and the accompanying bow-wow-wow guitar on neck pickup makes the song memorable. After this point the album kind of trails off, including Kim Gordon's songs, the dissonant for the sake of dissonance "Plastic Sun", and its opposite, the unobtrusive but interminable "Sympathy For The Strawberry." But the album does hit more than it misses, and while making a couple songs more concise (I'm looking at the 8-minutes of noise ending "Karen Revisited") would improve the album it wouldn't be very Sonic Youth anymore, would it?
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