THURSTON MOORE - "DEMOLISHED THOUGHTS" MATADOR 2001 UK 9-TRACK CD, SEALED


ARTIST - THURSTON MOORE
TITLE - "DEMOLISHED THOUGHTS"
TRACKS - please see pictures above
FORMAT - CD album
OTHER DETAILS
• Matador Records OLE 953-2, 2011 UK issue
• Produced and arranged by, featuring Beck (Hansen)
• Digipak sleeve, still factory sealed

(from the Matador website) - ˜Demolished Thoughts" is the 4th solo album from Sonic Youth"s Thurston Moore and the first to be produced by Beck Hansen. Recorded in Los Angeles and Northampton, MA ˜Demolished Thoughts" is an equally beautiful and brooding work ; while there's more than a few tonal similarities to some of your favourite Moore compositions from years past, the execution this time around is nothing short of staggering. No disrespect to 1995's ˜Psychic Hearts" or 2007's "Trees Outside The Academy" is intended on our part when we promise ˜Demolished Thoughts" burnishes Thurston's rep as a classic songwriter in ways we never anticipated when this album was first being talked about last year.

Personnel: Thurston Moore (vocals, guitar); Beck Hansen (vocals, synthesizer); Mary Lattimore (harp); Samara Lubelski (violin); Joey Waronker (percussion).

Reviews
Spin (p.102) - "Awash in sparkling guitars and the occasional odd sound effect, DEMOLISHED THOUGHTS is a noisenik's idea of California dreaming..."

Magnet (p.37) - Ranked #18 in Magnet's '20 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "[A] gossamer, almost incorporeal sigh of an LP from an underground iconoclast....THOUGHTS is never anything less than ethereal."

The Wire (p.51) - "The wall of urgently strummed, shifting chords that opens 'Orchard Street', and the shimmering, dissonant climax of 'Blood Never Lies' are brilliant acoustic extensions of Sonic Youth's density and intensity."

Paste (magazine) - "Beck produces, and he's in full MUTATIONS mode, creating a warm backdrop for Moore's strummy laments."

Clash (magazine) - "The arrangements are often complex...with improvisation within the melodies and a lyrical depth that is beyond pure contemplation or imagination."

Record Collector (magazine) (p.92) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] finds longtime SY acolyte Beck at the production desk -- and a stunningly impressionistic approach he takes too....This is a sumptuous record..."

Uncut (magazine) (p.33) - Ranked #23 in Uncut's '50 Best Albums Of 2011' -- "[DEMOLISHED THOUGHTS] posited another way forward for Moore, recasting his signature sound in appealing folksinger garb."

Please note that this item is STILL FACTORY SEALED so presumed 'as new'. There is a Eur 16.99 price sticker on the shrinkwrap to the rear (see pictures).  

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