Neither the new album by Free Kitten, the long-running on-and-off second band of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, nor Sonic Youth's latest missive from their own experimentally minded Syr label will likely appeal to anyone who likes Sonic Youth for writing songs with weird tunings, but they're worth hearing for those who love their more outré outings. Half of them are, anyway. Inherit is the more overtly song-like of the two, with Gordon's murmured vocals and the slow-rise guitar buzzes and hums as jammy as they are hooky. It crests nicely enough, but its casualness is sometimes just slack. The big exception is "Surf's Up," which rides buzzing, classic-rock guitar leads that eventually wash to shore somewhere different than they began. J'Accuse Ted Hughes has a similar overall effect, though its means are different. The 23-minute title track was recorded live at the All Tomorrow's Parties...
- 5/27/2008
- by Michaelangelo Matos
- avclub.com
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