SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century
SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century | ||||
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Studio album by Sonic Youth | ||||
Released | November 16, 1999 | |||
Recorded | March–August 1999, NYC | |||
Genre | Modern classical, experimental | |||
Length | 105:42 | |||
Label | SYR | |||
Producer | Sonic Youth, William Winant, Jim O'Rourke | |||
SYR series chronology | ||||
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SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century is the 11th studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It is a double album of versions of pieces by avant-garde composers, performed by Sonic Youth and collaborators.
Contents
Background
SYR4 featured works by avant-garde classical composers such as John Cage, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich and Christian Wolff, played by Sonic Youth and several collaborators from the modern avant-garde music scene, such as Christian Marclay, William Winant, Wharton Tiers and Takehisa Kosugi.
Unlike other entries in the SYR series, SYR4's liner notes were written in English.
Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon's daughter Coco Haley Gordon Moore provided the vocals for "Voice Piece for Soprano" on disc 1.
Track listing
Disc one | ||||
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Performers | Length |
1. | "Edges" | Christian Wolff | Wolff, Jim O'Rourke, Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Takehisa Kosugi, Thurston Moore, William Winant | 16:03 |
2. | "Six (3rd Take)" | John Cage | O'Rourke, Ranaldo, Shelley, Kosugi, Moore, Winant | 3:03 |
3. | "Six for New Time (For Sonic Youth)" | Pauline Oliveros | O'Rourke, Gordon, Ranaldo, Shelley, Moore, Winant | 8:06 |
4. | "+–" | Takehisa Kosugi | O'Rourke, Gordon, Ranaldo, Shelley, Kosugi, Moore, Winant | 7:01 |
5. | "Voice Piece for Soprano" | Yoko Ono | Coco Hayley Gordon Moore | 0:17 |
6. | "Pendulum Music" | Steve Reich | Gordon, Ranaldo, Shelley, Moore | 5:55 |
Disc two | ||||
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No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length | |
1. | "Having Never Written a Note for Percussion" | James Tenney | O'Rourke, Gordon, Ranaldo, Shelley, Kosugi, Moore, Winant | 9:09 |
2. | "Six (4th Take)" | Cage | O'Rourke, Ranaldo, Shelley, Kosugi, Moore, Winant | 2:10 |
3. | "Burdocks" | Wolff | Christian Marclay, Wolff, O'Rourke, Gordon, Ranaldo, Shelley, Kosugi, Moore, Winant | 13:12 |
4. | "Four6" | Cage | O'Rourke, Ranaldo, Shelley, Kosugi, Moore, Winant | 30:01 |
5. | "Piano Piece No. 13 (Carpenter's Piece) (For Nam June Paik)" | George Maciunas | Gordon, Ranaldo, Shelley, Moore | 3:58 |
6. | "Pièce enfantine" | Nicolas Slonimsky | Ranaldo, Winant | 1:28 |
7. | "Treatise (Page 183)" | Cornelius Cardew | O'Rourke, Gordon, Ranaldo, Shelley, Kosugi, Moore, Winant | 3:25 |
Release
SYR4: Goodbye 20th Century was released on CD and vinyl. The vinyl version had a slightly different track order, due to the side length constraints of the format. The first disc of the CD edition contained a QuickTime video of a performance of "Piano Piece No. 13 (Carpenter's Piece)", which showed Sonic Youth nailing piano keys down one by one.
Critical reception
Professional ratings | |
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Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Alternative Press | [2] |
Robert Christgau | [3] |
Entertainment Weekly | C+[4] |
NME | 7/10[5] |
Pitchfork | 8.5/10[6] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
Spin | favorable[2] |
Sputnikmusic | 3.5/5[8] |
SYR: Goodbye 20th Century received mixed reviews from critics, but most praised the group's efforts at popularizing and reinterpreting the composers' works.
Personnel
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- Sonic Youth
- Thurston Moore – production
- Kim Gordon – production
- Lee Ranaldo – production
- Steve Shelley – production
- Additional personnel
- Jim O'Rourke – production
- William Winant – production
- Takehisa Kosugi
- Christian Wolff
- Christian Marclay
- Coco Hayley Gordon Moore
- Technical
- Wharton Tiers – recording
- Luc Suer – recording
- Steve Fallone – mastering
- Chris Habib – sleeve graphics
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