Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat, worrying about the uncertain future of Sonic Youth, but then I find solace in the knowledge that, hey, Lee Ranaldo will always be there for me. Indeed, the vastly underappreciated Sonic Youth guitarist has a new solo album coming, Between the Times & the Tides, due out March 20. "Off the Wall" is the first track from the album that we get to hear and it stays in firm line of Ranaldo's sound, something I'm thrilled to find. It's much more minimal than Sonic Youth, but that was obviously going to be the case. He stands out now among all the old distorted riffs of the past into the forefront, pronounced and clear, and not just as that guy who also sings in Sonic Youth, but isn't Thurston Moore.
Between the Times & the Tides out March 20 via Matador
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