SONIC YOUTH: EVOL 1987 UK BLAST FIRST 1st PRESS w/SILVER INNER NEAR MINT
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SONIC YOUTH: EVOL 1987 UK BLAST FIRST 1st PRESS w/SILVER INNER NEAR MINT
SONIC YOUTHEVOL
1986 UK BLAST FIRST (BFFP 4) FIRST PRESSING
FIRST ISSUE WITH CONTINUAL PLAY LOCKED GROOVE AT THE END OF SIDE TWO (∞)
NICE ORIGINAL COPY WHICH HAS SEEN LITTLE USE
PRESSED WITH CUSTOM BLAST FIRST LABELS
Matrix: BFFP 4 A-2U - 1 - A PORKY PRIME CUT / BFFP 4 B-2U - 1 - BILBO TAPE OIP EVERYTHING TURNS BLACK TO BLUE
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SMOOTH GLOSSY SLEEVE
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL SILVER PICTURE/LYRIC INNER SLEEVE
By 1986, a still relatively recently formed Sonic Youth was in a time of transition. Born out of the noise of New York's thriving-in-ugliness no wave scene and ensconced in the influence of Glenn Branca's avant-garde guitar experimentalism, the band's early albums slowly morphed from the snotty abrasive clatter of its self-titled EP and spotty first proper LP Confusion Is Sex into a far darker but still somewhat inconsistent merging of haunted song sketches and foreboding noisy atmospheres on second album Bad Moon Rising. EVOL found the band in a similarly eerie mindset, but this time the dark dreaminess of songs like "Tom Violence," the tense instrumental "Death to Our Friends," and the gorgeously restrained "Shadow of a Doubt" are snapped into lockstep clarity by Steve Shelley's precise, tom-heavy drumming. Shelley, still a fresh-faced Michigan transplant to N.Y.C., joined the band on EVOL, replacing ex-Pussy Galore drummer Bob Bert, whose trash can percussion added some of the roughness to earlier Sonic Youth albums. While EVOL is still an album steeped in the noise and collage aesthetic the band grew from (most notable in the tape experiments, unexpected screams, and mesh of feedback and car-race sound effects of Lee Ranaldo's spoken word contribution "In the Kingdom #19" and the ghostly music-box loop and Kim Gordon's slithering vocals on "Secret Girls"), the songs here also represent the band's first flirtations with pop. Though gift-wrapped in jagged guitar tones and airy alternate tunings, songs like "Green Light," "Star Power," and the hypnotic bliss-out of album closer "Expressway to Yr. Skull" are built on cores of reaching melodicism and a tunefulness that borders at times on sounding playful. The addition of Shelley's propulsive drumming gave much-needed punctuation to the band's previously murky approach and connected some of the amorphous Halloween-themed textures the band was immersed in at the time to more deliberate, even traditional song structures. This affection for big, dumb, simplistic pop is driven home by their cover of Kim Fowley's unabashedly sleazy rocker "Bubblegum," included as a bonus track on early non-LP versions of the album. A product of a band finding its way between worlds, EVOL is a remarkably strong effort, and sets the stage for crystallising ideas that would soon result in what many considered the band's finest work
Side 1:
Tom Violence (3:04)
Shadow Of A Doubt (3:30)
Star Power (4:46)
In The Kingdom # 19 (3:22)
Green Light (3:39)
Side 2:
Death To Our Friends (3:17)
Secret Girl (2:50)
Marilyn Moore (4:02)
Expressway To Yr. Skull (∞)
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean labels with one or two spindle traces on Side 1, none on Side 2
VINYL Visual: VERY GOOD
Both surfaces are like new but both sides have in-vinyl pressing blemishes - just about the most severe I think I have seen for a UK pressing, more akin to North American vinyl, but all completely harmless with no effect on the sound
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Superb sound quality - crystal clear and sharp - plays beautifully - nice copy of one of their finest records - very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD
Some rub to the top edge and spine but text is mostly clear, and the beginnings of a small central split to the bottom edge which has not yet cut completely through
INNER SLEEVE: MINT
As new - no seam splits or even any sign of handling
POST & PACKING:
A PROTECTIVE POLY SLEEVE, NEW ANTI-STATIC LINER, QUALITY BOX (NOT ENVELOPE) MAILER AND AMPLE STIFFENERS ARE ALWAYS USED TO ENSURE THAT YOUR RECORD ARRIVES SAFELY
UK: £5.00 (Recorded)
EUROPE: Airmail: £15.00 (International Tracked)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £20.00 (International Tracked)
DUE TO THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES I WILL ONLY BE POSTING ONCE A WEEK ON FRIDAY
Combined Post: Additional records £1 (UK) £2 (Europe including Russia) £3 (International)
Guarantee: All records are unconditionally guaranteed (including sealed and/or unplayed) and I will offer a complete, no quibble refund upon return of the item should you not be pleased with it in any 1292 (GS 8.3.6 (1292))
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