Appears that Sonic Youth have tapped enfant terrible Jim O’Rourke to join the band permanently. As I haven’t cared much for anything O’Rourke has done, solo or otherwise, since the demise of Gastr Del Sol, I wonder what the result will be. I do know that I thought “NYC Ghosts & Flowers” (the first full album to feature O’Rourke) was pretty lame compared to its predecessors.
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