Sonic Youth: Sonic Youth (Neutral Records Import)***1/2
Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 5 June 1982
SONIC YOUTH, the first release on avant-garde missionary Glenn Branca's Neutral Records, is an EP in LP's clothing, and in many ways the music it contains is a parallel of that simple difference between promises made and promises kept.
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