February 9 street date. Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in Sonic Youth's story, "The 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, humor and audio verité. It's now issued for the first time officially under the band's 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. 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" surfaced much to everyone’s surprise, just before "EVOL" was to be released. It turned out to be a marker of the group's dissatisfaction that ultimately led to the release's deletion, and the band and Smith parting ways after "Daydream Nation". The first two sides of "The Walls Have Ears" are massive, cavernous, with newly-drafted drummer Steve Shelley. The record's second slab spotlights an April 1985 at London's Hammersmith Palais and was one of the final appearances live of Bob Bert on drums. This document remains an essential representation of some lean and mean years of the quartet's throttling march out into the world.
February 9 street date. Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in Sonic Youth's story, "The 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, humor and audio verité. It's now issued for the first time officially under the band's 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. 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" surfaced much to everyone’s surprise, just before "EVOL" was to be released. It turned out to be a marker of the group's dissatisfaction that ultimately led to the release's deletion, and the band and Smith parting ways after "Daydream Nation". The first two sides of "The Walls Have Ears" are massive, cavernous, with newly-drafted drummer Steve Shelley. The record's second slab spotlights an April 1985 at London's Hammersmith Palais and was one of the final appearances live of Bob Bert on drums. This document remains an essential representation of some lean and mean years of the quartet's throttling march out into the world.
February 9 street date. Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in Sonic Youth's story, "The 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, humor and audio verité. It's now issued for the first time officially under the band's 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. 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" surfaced much to everyone’s surprise, just before "EVOL" was to be released. It turned out to be a marker of the group's dissatisfaction that ultimately led to the release's deletion, and the band and Smith parting ways after "Daydream Nation". The first two sides of "The Walls Have Ears" are massive, cavernous, with newly-drafted drummer Steve Shelley. The record's second slab spotlights an April 1985 at London's Hammersmith Palais and was one of the final appearances live of Bob Bert on drums. This document remains an essential representation of some lean and mean years of the quartet's throttling march out into the world.
March 22 street date. New colour variant. Culled from three 1985 gigs in the UK during a transitional and transcendent time in Sonic Youth's story, "The 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, humor and audio verité. It's now issued for the first time officially under the band's 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. 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" surfaced much to everyone’s surprise, just before "EVOL" was to be released. It turned out to be a marker of the group's dissatisfaction that ultimately led to the release's deletion, and the band and Smith parting ways after "Daydream Nation". The first two sides of "The Walls Have Ears" are massive, cavernous, with newly-drafted drummer Steve Shelley. The record's second slab spotlights an April 1985 at London's Hammersmith Palais and was one of the final appearances live of Bob Bert on drums. This document remains an essential representation of some lean and mean years of the quartet's throttling march out into the world.
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