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They Tried With Their Boots On: Sonic Youth

Gavin Martin, NME, 11 May 1991

TEN-YEAR VETERANS of American clubland, Sonic Youth were on the brink of going overground. We were meeting them at a crosspoint in their career. They were on the last leg of their first ever football stadium support slot (for Neil Young) and learning to settle into life on the notorious David Geffen's new label.

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