Sonar Yen - Slow Picture

Review by owright

Sitting down to write this review of The Sonar Yen’s debut LP, I wondered if I could get through a without mentioning Sonic Youth. I thought it might be a challenge. But fuck it, Sonic Youth’s influence is all over the Sonar Yen sound. Two songs on this LP remind me of the sainted Youth’s ’Sunday’ and the coda to ‘Lacklustre' is a total submission to the influence. This doesn’t matter, because it still sounds mean.»