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Sonic Youth - EVOL

Primary Artist
Sonic Youth
Album Title
EVOL
Release Date
1986 
Time
38:40 
Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Sonic Youth made their first moves toward rock with Evol, a stunningly fluent mixture of avant-garde instrumentation and subversions of rock & roll. The band benefits greatly from the addition of structure, which gives its aural experiments a firm grounding, but the addition of drummer Steve Shelley is essential to the group's new, dangerous edge. With the added propulsion, the fearless rush of "Expressway to Yr Skull" (aka "Madonna, Sean and Me") and the near-pop of {&"Gree Read More
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