January 1999
(previously unreleased; produced by Mike Apichella with Zach Poff)
Personell: Mike Apichella - vocals; Josh Marchant - guitar;
Walker Stump-Coale - bass; Chris Johnson - drums
(note: detailed info. on the origins of CCS and related bands can be found in the 40 pg. booklet that accompanies the cassette version of Towson-Glen Arm Freakouts, which also features another previously unreleased bonus track by Charm City Suicides which is not included on any digital version of this record)
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Sonic Youth is one of those bands where you easily run out of superlatives to describe what they created. This could've easily come off as a cynical cash-grab by a band that had broken up 11 years prior to the release of this record, but that's not what this is. Some of my favourite Sonic Youth instrumentals. sentient meat
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When you consider the very uniqueness of this group, why wouldn't you buy it? They really are a seriously spectacular live act as well as masters of the studio. Gavin Hellyer