Sonic Youth announce rarities compilation ‘In/Out/In’, share slow-burner ‘In & Out’

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Sonic Youth have announced ‘In/Out/In’, a compilation of rare tracks recorded throughout the 2000s.Due out March 11 via Three Lobed Recordings, the five-track effort bundles two songs recorded at the band’s old stomping grounds – the Echo Canyon studio in New York, which they operated before relocating to Hoboken – in 2000, one tracked during a soundcheck in 2010, and two home recordings minted in 2008.To preview the record, Sonic Youth have shared the slow-burning jam ‘In & Out’.

It’s the aforementioned track pulled from a soundcheck – which took place before a show in the Californian city of Pomona – spanning over seven minutes of atmospheric buzzing, cantering percussion, experimental twangs and Kim Gordon’s wordless vocal melodies.Have a listen to it below:According to a caption for ‘In/Out/In’ on BandCamp – where fans can pre-order a limited black vinyl pressing of it – the record is said to “reveal their last decade to be still heavy on the roll-tape and bug-out Sonic Youth”.“The sequencing here is especially well thought out,” it continues, describing opener ‘Basement Contender’ as “a super-unfiltered glimpse of the band at Kim and Thurston [Moore]’s Northampton house creating a gentle springboard of Venusian choogle, with phased Lee [Ranaldo] lappings at cascading Thurston figures forming a simmering soundtrack”.The song ‘Machine’ is said to have been recorded during the sessions for Sonic Youth’s 15th and final studio album, 2009’s ‘The Eternal’, “and is a steamy exercise in stop-start rhythmic grunt amidst a jungle of chiming and upward spiralling chord progressions”.‘Social Static’ – a score piece from the titular film helmed by Chris Habib and Spencer Tunick – is described as “draping white sheets of noise.