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Sonic Youth, a thousand leaves

A great all-day-breakfast of an album. The distortion sections can be hard to take if you're not in the right mood, but provide an interesting crunchiness against the gentle feelings elsewhere:

Pitchfork say:

If Huck Finn was an LSD distributor on the Mississippi, circa 1968, this is the song he'd listen to as he dangled his naked feet in the water, sitting on the edge of his raft that he constructed from VW Bus tires.

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