The A-side featured their cover of " I Wanna Be Your Dog" with Iggy Pop. "Sister" was the original title for "Schizophrenia", and a live recording of the song from Jat The Town and Country Club in London was released on the B-side of a bootleg 7" single under the title "Sister". Some of the lyrics on "Schizophrenia" were originally written for early song "Come Around" ("Your future is static, It's already had it/But I got a hunch, it's coming back to me"). The album features aggressive noise songs such as "White Kross" and "Catholic Block", as well as a menacing noir ode, "Pacific Coast Highway", although it also featured more traditional song structures. Music and lyrics Īccording to Sputnikmusic's Adam Downer, Sister deviated from the frenetic sound of Sonic Youth's previous music in favor of a refined style of noise pop that would typify the band's subsequent work. "Sister" was also the original title for "Schizophrenia", and Thurston Moore often introduced it as "Sister". The original titles for the album were Kitty Magic, Humpy Pumpy and Sol-Fuc, but it was named Sister as a reference to Dick's fraternal twin, who died shortly after her birth, and whose memory haunted Dick his entire life. Sister was in part inspired by the life and works of science fiction writer Philip K. Sister is a loose concept album (like its follow-up Daydream Nation). ![]() Sister was recorded to 16-track in March and April 1987 with Walter Sear at Sear Sound, entirely on analog tube equipment, giving it its characteristic "warm", vintage feel. During the tour of the album, the band began writing material for a new album ("White Kross" had been written earlier, circa May 1986). ![]() ![]() Sonic Youth released their third album, EVOL, in May 1986. Left to right: Steve Shelley, Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, and Kim Gordon. In the years following, however, it received much critical praise, with several publications naming it as one of the best albums of the 1980s.īackground and recording Sonic Youth in a 1987 publicity photo from the press kit for Sister. Like Sonic Youth's previous records, Sister was not successful at the time of its release. ![]() The album furthered the band's move away from the no wave genre towards more traditional song structures, while maintaining an aggressively experimental approach. It was released in June 1987 by SST Records. It’s an exciting sojourn within a world of possibilities for Adekunle Gold.Sister is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It radiates as Adekunle Gold’s most confident and profound body of work, so far. Tequila Ever After is a statement record, with high replay value, amazing collaborations, and sonic variety. The award-winning singer and songwriter also rehashes his golden Simi-duets, unlocking the nostalgia from the couple’s chemistry as not only lovers and parents, but musicians on Look What You Made Me Do. And in Chasing Peace of Mind, the singer travels to the sonic plains of South Africa, as well as Mali, as he taps their respective legends Ami Faku, and Habib Koité in this song.Īnd for its “wow effect,” Adekunle Gold reached out to American singer Coco Jones on Make It Easy, as well as 14-time Grammy-winning artiste and producer Pharell Williams, and Grammy Hall of Fame inductee, Nile Rodgers on the classic tune, Falling Up. He also spins the American vocal heavyweight Khalid, as well as British maestro Labrinth on Come Back To Me, and To My Own, respectively. From the social staple, Party No Dey Stop, to the genre-defining duet with Odumodublvck on Wrong Person, Adekunle Gold soars with a refreshing-yet-local listening experience on this record. In Tequila Ever After, Adekunle Gold delicately assembles an army of global superstars whose music has made significant impacts in their respective countries and beyond.
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