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''Sonic Nurse'' is the thirteenth
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by American
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, released on June 8, 2004 by
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Content and controversies

The album's cover art was designed by artist
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from his '' Nurse Paintings'' series. Furthermore, one of Prince's photographic creations in this series was titled "Dude Ranch Nurse", which is also the name of a song on this record. "Pattern Recognition" was based on the 2003 William Gibson novel of the same name. Sonic Youth had used Gibson's work as an influence before, notably on a few tracks from ''
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'' (1988). "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" was previously released as "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" on the first
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''Buddy Series'' 7", but the title was changed due to controversy.


Reception

The album has a score of 77 out of 100 from
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based on "generally favorable reviews". ''No Ripcord'' gave the album 10 out of 10 stars and said it "could be the best guitar rock album since, well, ''Murray Street''."
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gave it 5 out of 5 stars and said the album was "the closest to creating a landmark on parallel with ‘Daydream Nation’ they’ve come since that particular record's nameday in ‘88, and in dense textures it maybe signals the extinction of the antediluvian No Wave idyll; a Robert Zimmerman trip that somehow got mixed up with Joni Mitchell, Black Flag and a conceptualist oddball." In his "Consumer Guide",
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gave the album an A− and said, "This unusually songful set is well up among their late good ones, its dissonances a lingua franca deployed less atmospherically than has been their recent practice." While working for ''
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'', Christgau gave the same album 4 stars out of 5 and called it " onic Youth'smost songful release since the major-label hellos ''Goo'' and ''Dirty'', and by most standards their best since 1988's pivotal ''Daydream Nation''." ''
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'' gave the album a score of 90% and called it "a gorgeous, bona fide gem." ''
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'' gave it a B+ and said that the album, "if not proof of a band bursting with fresh ideas, is at least fresh-sounding." ''Prefix Magazine'' gave it a favorable review and said, "With ''Sonic Nurse'', it's truly possible to see 2000's excruciatingly indulgent ''NYC Ghosts and Flowers'' as a speed bump on an otherwise smooth decade of record-making. Their last, 2002's bittersweet ''Murray Street'', was a return to form, and the epic ''Sonic Nurse'' will only supply more evidence for Sonic Youth's canonization". ''
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'' gave it a score of 4 stars out of 5 and said, "Every song but one falls fully developed in the five- to seven-minute ballpark, brimming with enough dissonant wizardry, smart vocal imagery, and tonal shades of rock to fly the freak flag like no aging rockers ever have".
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gave the album 8 stars out of 10 and said, "What emerges is Sonic Youth at complete ease with themselves and their music, operating simultaneously at the peak of their powers and with a powerful, audacious restraint". '' Under the Radar'' also gave it 8 out of 10 stars and said the album "might capture something of indie rock's recent taste for emotional epics". ''
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'' likewise gave the album 4 stars out of 5 and stated: "The Youth sound rejuvenated". ''Dusted Magazine'' gave it a favorable review and said that "The songs, despite being mostly over five minutes long, are all to the point without feeling meandering.... The balance between noise and melody is right, with each emerging and vanishing at just the right point". ''
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'' also gave it a favorable review and said the album "compiles a laid-back hour of elaborate plucking and rhythm from five veteran musicians who reserve musical violence and poetic anger for when it feels most appropriate". ''
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'' likewise gave it a favorable review and said the album "percolates the same melancholy satisfaction and nervous maturity, entropy and growth, in and out--but with an urgency and impulsiveness that risks upsetting the balance".
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gave the album a B and called it "a cure for what ails the airwaves." ''
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'' gave it a score of 7 out of 10 and said the album "sounds like a brilliant album by a lesser band". '' Q'' gave the album 3 stars out of 5 and said it "finds onic Youthrevelling in bursts of noise and awkwardness, but more surprisingly perhaps, taking as much comfort in sweet melody". ''
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'' also gave the album 3 stars out of 5 and said it was not "a classic rock record. And it's not a classic Sonic Youth record. It's an excursion, into corners weird and corners familiar". ''
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'' likewise gave the album 3 stars out of 5 and said it was "better than 90 percent of new rock, but with younger combos like Lightning Bolt and Liars stealing their thunder, these well-meaning vets come off as old and in the way". ''
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'', however, gave it a score of 5 out of 10 and called it "a strangely enervated Sonic Youth record, one that exchanges Murray Street's golden-years vigor for a sad sense of duty". The album placed second in ''
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can do this sort of thing in their sleep nowadays, but there was no arguing with the supple versatility of their triple guitar stack and the delight with which they marry lyrics astuteness, textural grit and forward momentum."


Track listing


Personnel

Sonic Youth *
Kim Gordon Kim Althea Gordon (born April 28, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bassist, guitarist, and vocalist of alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Born in Rochester, New York, she was raised in Los Angeles, Califor ...
– vocals, guitar, bass (2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10) *
Thurston Moore Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moo ...
– vocals, guitar *
Lee Ranaldo Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (guitar and vocals). In 2004, ''Rolling ...
– guitar, vocals *
Steve Shelley Steven Jay Shelley (born June 23, 1962) is an American drummer. He is best known as the longtime drummer of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, for whom he played from 1985 until their 2011 disbandment. Biography Shelley was born in Midland, ...
– drums * Jim O'Rourke – guitar, bass (1, 4, 6, 7)


Charts


References

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