SONIC YOUTH - Washing Machine 2LP reggae but back when they were

but back when they were still on Twin/Tone in Minneapolis

While it's true that early Devo is the Coneheads guiding light

until they turned their fire upon themselves and disintegrated mid-decade

But really there are plenty of gems to found

to the brilliantly angry closing rant of Paraguay

SONIC YOUTH - Washing Machine 2LP reggae but back when they wereAfter defying their status as America's pre eminent alternative band with 1994's stripped down Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star, Sonic Youth returned a year later with the adventurous Washing Machine, a heightened and hookless 2LP set produced by former engineer John Siket. Driven by the ringing electric guitars of Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore and extended multi layered arrangements, Washing Machine straddles the line of art and invention