As usual, things are afoot in the post-Sonic Youth universe. Thurston Moore is releasing a cassingle to support the efforts to free the currently imprisoned U.S. Army private Chelsea Manning (who is facing a long imprisonment after sharing information on WikiLeaks). He’s shared the a-side of the cassingle, “Chelsea’s Kiss,” which starts out lovely and then gets sludgy and furious. You can listen to it below.
Drummer Ryan Sawyer join My Bloody Valentine bassist Deb Googe and Nought guitarist James Sedwards both of whom reportedly appear on Moore’s upcoming Rock N Roll Consciousness LP—for a hard-hitting eight minutes of dissonant guitar interplay that brings to mind Sonic Youth’s exploratory 1998 album A Thousand Leaves. If lyrics about “the queen, king, first transgender ruler” don’t quite have the simplicity of his earlier declaration about Professor Hill, well, Moore can’t call out “a fascist twerp” on every song.
The Fat Angel Sings 