“*How?* It's a question elicited by any great album, but one that accompanied Sonic Youth's 2002 return to glory, *Murray Street*, in particular, and will likely arise in response to any remotely decent effort from the group herein. It might have dawned on some fans only after hearing *Murray Street* that Sonic Youth's mean age was then roughly 45, and that the group arguably hadn't produced a reco”
“By Sonic Youth’s own ear-shredding standards, Sonic Nurse is mellow gold. The guitar feedback that has defined these noise-worshipping New York bohemians for more than twenty years hasn’t vanished, yet this is Sonic Youth’s most accessible album since 1992’s Dirty. The skewed, groovy guitar riffing on Nurse cops the prettiness and chops of classic Seventies […]”