Sonic Youth

a record that helped attach melody to formlessness and brought about a new kind of new age music

with Britt Daniel and friends getting inventive via dub beats

and its muggy grooves capture the sound of premillennial anxiety

Chico Perdido

Lower Dens - The Competition (Limited Edition Clear Vinyl) audio bullys Sonic YouthThe fourth album from Lower Dens, The Competition is a pop album with a concept both emotionally and politically urgent, dealing with modern capitalism and its psychotic effects. Its 11 songs range in scope from the personal to the political, but overall express an epiphany: you need radical and unquestioning compassion for yourself if youre to reimagine what society could be.