“Near the start of this wildly abstract collaboration, Yoko Ono seems tocackle "Mwah-ha-ha!" amid the groans, chants, improvised poetry, and impressionistic sex noises. Humor was often part of the pioneering sound-arts he explored with John Lennon – alongside joy, fury, lust, and glossolalic craziness. And so it is here. Recorded in 2011 before Kim Gordon […]”
“The most surprising thing about YOKOKIMTHURSTON is that it took until 2012 to happen. After all, what are Sonic Youth if not the modern manifestation of the avant/rock ideal that Yoko and her late husband John Lennon forged with Plastic Ono Band?”