Names of North End Women is a collaborative record from Lee Ranaldo + Raül Refree.
"If you live long enough, you see a lot of people drift in and out of your life," says Lee Ranaldo, explaining one of the loose themes linking the adventurous pieces that compose his and collaborator Raül Refree’s electrifying new album: that of the ineffable course of time, and the lives that pass in and out of one’s own.
In a remarkable career that has seen him flourish as a songwriter, a singer, a guitarist, a noisemaker, a poet, a visual artist, a producer, and more, Ranaldo has seen many fellow quixotics – from his bandmates in Sonic Youth to this most recent collaboration with Raül Refree, whose restless career had taken him from hard-core bands in his youth, to the vanguard of a new movement redefining flamenco. One of the most renowned producers in southern Europe, his collaboration with Rosalía on her debut album has shaped both the modern sound of flamenco and her new found stardom.
Following their collaborative work on 2017’s Electric Trim which saw Refree in the guise of producer and the subsequent tours supporting that album, they went back into the studio but the duo quickly realised they weren’t recording a new Lee Ranaldo solo album, but rather their first as Lee Ranaldo and Raul Refree – "the beginning of a new partnership, a new configuration’", Ranaldo says. "We’re a two-headed machine," adds Refree. "We’re both talking about everything. We don’t always agree on everything, but every song, every piece, every sound you hear comes from two people talking about it."
1. Alice, etc
2. Words Out Of The Haze
3. New Brain Trajectory
4. Humps
5. Names of North End Women
6. Light Years Out
7. The Art of Losing
8. At The Forks
Catalogue Number: CDSTUMM445
Release Date: 21st February 2020
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Mon January 13, 2020 9:50 pm
by washing machine
Alice, Etc. is a title that feels like it was destined to be a Lee song.
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Mon January 13, 2020 9:51 pm
by washing machine
Shit. So does Words Out Of The Haze.
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Mon January 13, 2020 10:17 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Wed March 25, 2020 8:20 pm
by super nintendo chalmers
They've been uploading some real heat on their live archive bandcamp. This 04 show did the trick nicely today.
I wish i could get more into Lee´s albums. Ill try.
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Tue April 21, 2020 3:41 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Tue April 21, 2020 3:55 pm
by VinylGuy
I dont quite like his songs on SY either, i mean i love some of them, but its just not my thang.
Nb: SY aren't mentioned at all, but we don't have an O'Rourke-specific thread, so here 'tis.
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 11:27 am
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
Nb: SY aren't mentioned at all, but we don't have an O'Rourke-specific thread, so here 'tis.
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 3:20 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Fri May 08, 2020 4:32 pm
by VinylGuy
Ive just realize that this october will mark 20 years since i saw the band for the first time.
fuck.
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 1:23 am
by tragabigzanda
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 4:20 am
by Iholdthepain
VinylGuy wrote:Ive just realize that this october will mark 20 years since i saw the band for the first time.
fuck.
25 years for me this summer... Lolla '95!
Got a cool Sonic Nurse mask, btw.
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 8:38 am
by makeshift
daydream nation concert film is up at Nugs. Register for a free account to watch
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 4:28 pm
by VinylGuy
Iholdthepain wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Ive just realize that this october will mark 20 years since i saw the band for the first time.
fuck.
25 years for me this summer... Lolla '95!
Got a cool Sonic Nurse mask, btw.
Was it a cool show? Mine was incredible. A massive rain just poured when they played and it was incredible to see. Came home so happy.
Re: Sonic Youth is fuckin amazing!
Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 12:17 am
by Birds in Hell
I saw them only once, 12 years ago, playing Daydream Nation in full, a Rather Ripped-themed encore (it was their latest record at the time), then closing with Drunken Butterfly. Coincidentally, it was an outdoor show and raining that night too; a light refreshing mist on a steaming hot night. Great, great show!
