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Sonic Youth's 1995 album sees the band taking a more melodic approach to long-form jamming while still staying true to their art-damaged core principles.

Sonic Youth's third album and SST debut introduced Steve Shelley to the world and showed that arty avant-gardisms and howling hardcore could be turned into genuine songs. It changed things for the band and for the underground they were a part of.

The Sonic Youth EP is the perfect starting point for a career that balanced audacious, visceral experimentation with cerebral theorizing and punk rock attitude with an ear for a compelling tune.

Sonic Youth's noisy, messy and sloppy first two releases are excellent documents of how they began: on fire with ideas, driven half-mad by the grind of being young, poor and artistic in lower Manhattan and possessed with the desire to weld hardcore p