SOUNDTRACK: SONIC YOUTH-SYR 5: Sonic Youth Featuring Kim Gordon/DJ Olive/Ikue Mori (2000).
The fifth SYR disc is rather different from the others in that the only SY member is Kim. This is a sort of side project for Kim, Ikue Mori and DJ Olive. They’ve played shows together as well.
This disc is also different because it features a number of short songs rather than a couple of long ones. It also features a lot of different instrumentation: turntables, keyboards, that sort of thing. Most of the tracks are instrumental (more or less) although a few have Kim’s vocals on it. And Yuka Honda from Cibo Matto does vocals on one track.
Kim’s side projects (like Free Kitten) are usually pretty abrasive. She lets her freak flag fly with her vocals. And that in a nutshell will determine whether you like this or not. Kim is playing mostly guitar, so the other instruments tend to take over a bit.
It’s always interesting when SY mixes it up with another band or solo artist. But it doesn’t really make it a SY record, proper.
Oh, and all of the writing on the disc is in Japanese.
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There’s a new Scott Pilgrim website which lets us know that Volume 6 will be out in 2010. I can’t wait that long!
This 5th volume seemed a bit different from the other four. The lines were crisper, it seemed like Ramona looked a little bit different (her eyes were bigger or something) and overall, the volume was a lot darker (in tone).
Today is Scott’s 24th birthday (he’s now the same age as Ramona, yup he finally asked her).
But at a party Steven Stills tells Knives that Scott had cheated on Knives with Ramona and on Ramona with Knives (which wasn’t true exactly), which sets Knives off again. She violently confronts Ramona and when she says why, Ramona gets pissed too.
At this same party, Ramona’s evil ex-boyfriends (the twins Kyle and Ken Katayanagi) show up. Scott prepares to fight them, but they send their robot after him instead. The fight continues downstairs while everyone pretty much goes to other rooms, kind of bored with the whole escapade.
We also see a bit of Ramona and Scott’s domestic life (Ramona runs errands all day and Scott does, well, nothing). (more…)
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