Description
Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in the bands story, Sonic Youths Walls Have Ears appeared / disappeared as a 2LP set in 1986, not just a live album but an artful tapestry full of live experimentation with songs, between-song tape segues, darkness, humour and audio verité. Its now issued for the first time officially under the bands auspices. The 85 shows were the second time the band appeared on UK soil, Brits now getting juiced to the mythos of the emerging guitar-slinging American independent underground; an art / punk band from NYC sporting casual attitudes and tees sporting Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, and Prince made some good press copy on top of their bludgeoning stage appearance. Paul Smith of the newly-founded Blast First label acted as an overseas diplomatic envoy for Sonic Youth through their SST years as well as issuing their classic 1988 Daydream Nation outside the USA. However the Smith-produced bootleg of their 85 UK gigs surfaced much to everyones surprise, just before EVOL was to be released. It turned out to be a marker of the groups dissatisfaction that ultimately led to the releases deletion, and the band and Smith parting ways after Daydream. This document remains an essential representation of some lean and mean years of the quartets throttling march out into the world.
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