Sonic Youth have begun working on a unexampled album, Thurston Moore has disclosed, and, for the first time in about 20 long time, the New York noiseniks are once again an "independent rock band".
With the release of 2006's Rather Ripped, the art rock quintet realized their contract with major label Geffen, Moore told Rolling Stone this calendar week. "The terminal four or five records we did were exactly so compromised by [the major label] situation," he said. "But that's the way it goes."
Sonic Youth will now be heading to the sort of independent label you would imagine them being on. "There's one label we are sure enough going to go with at this point," he said, "only I don't think I'm allowed to disclose that right directly. I don't want to risk having a shit storm." However, he does concede that the striation are once again departure "indie" and "it feels great".
Though Sonic Youth started out on small labels such as Neutral and SST, their breakthrough success came with 1988's Daydream Nation, which was distributed by Capitol, a major label. They then signed to Geffen for the release of 1990's Goo. Though Sonic Youth hold recorded rigorously for Geffen since then, its members' side projects have not, and Moore is engaged with a boutique label called Ecstatic Peace.
Sonic Youth volition return to the studio in November, with plans to exit an album in springtime 2009. "I've written a half-dozen birdcall ideas," Moore said. "I try not to complete them so much. Last time we got together, we were creating new band-zone-vibe sort of things." Even if we have no idea what he is talking about, it sounds good to us.
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