Blog: HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

Despite Sonic Youths' endless critical plaudits over the years and their emergence at the time when I began developing a real taste in the alternative, I never gravitated to their music. Let's be honest. Sonic Youth is an acquired taste and their music, at its most experimental, is difficult to absorb with hooks that take multiple listens prior to setting in the jaw. I was first exposed to the band through their appropriately titled Experimental Jet Set album. The "tricks" seemed interesting and the band was so alternative that you felt cool just telling people that you had [...]