“If anyone had told me in 1992 that ten years later I'd be stepping up to praise this record, I'd probably have shot him. When *Dirty* first came out, it was an almost universal disappointment to anyone who'd listened to Sonic Youth beyond *Goo*-- and amidst the cries bemoaning what a major-label contract had done to their music, it wasn't as clear then that, beneath the glossy sheen Butch Vig and ”
“Rock has never seen a band quite like Sonic Youth, even if you discount the group’s innovative guitar tunings and unique slant on pop culture. For eleven years now, Sonic Youth — singer-guitarist Thurston Moore, singer-bassist Kim Gordon, guitarist Lee Ranaldo and drummer Steve Shelley — have surefootedly made their way from the New York […]”
