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Moore, Thurston: Flow Critical Lucidity (Daydream Library Series)

A diverse and interesting set of songs in Thurston Moore's ninth solo record, recorded in Europe & The UK with contributors including Laetitia Sadier of Stereolab and Deb Googe of My Bloody Valentine, many of the songs reminiscent of Sonic Youth but uniquely Moore through unpretentious communication that references topics including lucid dreaming, nature and the changing planet.
 

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Thurston Moore-vocals, guitar

Deb Googe-bass

Jon Leidecker-electronics

James Sedwards-piano, organ, guitar, glockenspiel

Jem Doulton-percussion

Laetitia Sadier-backing vocals


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Includes a 6-page foldout insert with lyrics

UPC: 5063176045423

Label: Daydream Library Series
Catalog ID: DLS 016CD
Squidco Product Code: 35106

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: UK
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded at Total Refreshment Centre in Stoke Newington, London UK.

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"The Daydream Library Series record label has confirmed Thurston Moore's new full-length album Flow Critical Lucidity, his ninth solo recording. Some of the songs were written and arranged in Europe and The United Kingdom and include lyrical references to their environments and inspired by nature, lucid dreaming, modern dance and Isadora Duncan. The album was arranged at La Becque in Switzerland and recorded at Total Refreshment Studios in London in 2022, and mixed at Hermitage Studios in London with Margo Broom in 2023.

Flow Critical Lucidity comes from a lyric in the single "Sans Limites" and the album sleeve cover art features Jamie Nares' "Samurai Walkman" -- a helmet befitted with tuning forks. Jamie Nares (born in Great Britain) is a life-long friend of Thurston Moore from his New York No Wave days and the two have often collaborated in art and music.

In 2023, Thurston released two singles: the energetic Isadora Duncan inspired "Isadora" with a music video starring Sky Ferreira. "Hypnogram," which press called "one of the most intensely cerebral cuts Moore has ever released, [in which] he blends the more melodic moments of his former band with the layered, heady flourishes of his bassist Deb Googe's main band, My Bloody Valentine.

Emphatically conveying the feeling of dreams, the new material has fans excited for what the American has in store with his next album." In April of 2024, Thurston shared the stirring Earth Day anthem "Rewilding." The musician delivered chilling lines as he ruminated on the removal of the human hand from nature. Moore sang about renewal, and a period for friends of the Earth to sleep and realize a natural way by "coralmorphologically dreaming." The musician said the U.K.'s rewilding movement aspires to reduce human influence on ecosystems. -Daydream Library Series



"[...] To call it a solo record does disservice to the album's many contributors. Moore enlisted the vocal talents of Laetitia Sadier, the bass props of previous collaborator Deb Googe, Jon Leidecker's electronics, Jem Doulton on percussion, and multi-instrumentalist James Sedwards playing everything from guitar and piano to glockenspiel and organ. Interestingly, the lyrics on all but one track are credited to Radieux Radio, an alias of Moore's wife, Eva Prinz.

For a record with such a diverse set of players, however, the music is undoubtedly Moore's own. It spans his creative timeline, covering those early days guitar duelling with Glenn Branca, through Psychic Hearts, The Eternal, and up to 2020's By The Fire. Admittedly his dalliances with black metal (Twilight), free jazz, and harsh noise (Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper) don't really get a look in beyond the discordant harmonics squeaking like hungry cats on the opening track but, for the rest of Flow Critical Lucidity, it's as if we're being taken on a hazy drive through his back catalogue.

'Shadow' cannonballs in with a Breeders-esque guitar line calling and immediately responding. It's reminiscent of Sonic Youth's Daydreamier parts as it descends into a blues-infused fuzz out. Similarly, 'Sans Limites' sounds like the Youth at their cheeriest. There's six string interplay amongst the roar of rising jets and purposefully plinked pianos before swerving into a more structured thrust. Finale 'The Diver' is a stoned daze of looping, twisting guitar leads, the reins of delay clamped firmly between arpeggiating teeth.

It's not just a call back to Moore's former band, however. 'New In Town' exists somewhere between cool nodding beats and unsettling horror film atmospherics. It's like barging into the wrong room at the afters and slowly being sucked into a bongo-fuelled poetry recital. For an album packed with serene sounds, it's quite a jarring start.

Fifth track 'Let's Get High' is a slow sex stomp. Frontal lobe-tickling chimes ping like raindrops off a frozen pond and, in the background, a great machine-like grinding of guitar strings blasts out, as if someone is dragging an industrial oven across a cobbled stone floor, 10cm at a time.

The whole record feels hauled from a dream space where you're laid on your back letting the sky sink down to you. It's 'Shadow of a Doubt' the album. The central track 'Hypnogram' glimmers like the leaking embers of a low winter sun. When the light hits just right, so does this record. It's been dropped perfectly for autumn's seasonal shift with tumbling golden rays dispersing into purpled blue skies. That's true now and I think it'll be true in thirty-six years' time."-Jon Buckland, The Quietus

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Includes a 6-page foldout insert with lyrics

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Artist Biographies

"Along with his work as part of the acclaimed art/punk rock band Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore [b. born July 25, 1958] also pursued numerous solo and side projects, including Even Worse and the Dim Stars with Richard Hell. His first solo album, 1994's Psychic Hearts, featuring ex-Half Japanese guitarist Tim Foljahn and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, had an appropriately offhand feel but was far from sloppy. Along with carrying Sonic Youth into the 2000s, Moore collaborated with artists including DJ Spooky and Nels Cline, wrote music reviews and other pieces for Arthur magazine, and issued a book, Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture, in 2005. His second song-based album, Trees Outside of the Academy, arrived in 2007, and featured largely acoustic arrangements and cameos by Shelley, Samara Lubelski, and Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis. In 2010, Moore guested on the Hat City Intuitive's A Ticket for Decay and began laying the foundation for another solo effort, Demolished Thoughts, which appeared the following year.

Following Moore's separation from bandmate, wife, and partner Kim Gordon in late 2011, Sonic Youth was put on indefinite pause. Nevertheless, Moore and Gordon collaborated with Yoko Ono the following year on the album YOKOKIMTHURSTON. By 2012, Moore had begun touring and recording with new act Chelsea Light Moving, as well as joining black metal group Twilight on guitar. The year 2013 saw the release of @, a collaborative album of sax/guitar improvisations with fellow N.Y.C. fringe dweller John Zorn. Arriving in 2014, The Best Day saw Moore shedding the softer acoustic moods of Demolished Thoughts for a return to his signature rock sprawl and daydreamy lyrics. Two years later, he issued the single "Feel It in Your Guts," which was available to anyone who donated to Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign. For 2017's Rock n Roll Consciousness, Moore reunited with his backing band for The Best Day -- Sonic Youth drummer Shelley, My Bloody Valentine bassist Deb Googe, and Nought guitarist James Sedwards -- on a mystically inspired set of songs."

-All Music (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/thurston-moore-mn0000588183/biography)
10/2/2024

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Deb Googe is a bass player, best known as the bassist with My Bloody Valentine, Thurston Moore Group and Brix Smith. Her own project is da Googie.

-Deb Googe Website (https://www.dagoogie.com/)
10/2/2024

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"Wobbly is the moniker of Jon Leidecker (born 1970) a San FranciscoÐbased musician/composer of experimental electronic music.

He has released works on Tigerbeat6, Illegal Art, Alku, Phthalo, and others. He has been producing music since 1987 and ongoing studio and live projects involve collaborations with People Like Us, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Blechdom, Tim Perkis, Matmos, The Weatherman of Negativland, and Dieter Moebius & Tim Story (composer). He is also a member of the Chopping Channel and Sagan.

In 2002, Leidecker was responsible for the first montage and final cleanup of the Keep the Dog album, That House We Lived In (2003).

In 2011, Leidecker joined the multimedia collective Negativland. With Negativland's Mark Hosler and Peter Conheim along with Doug Wellman, Leidecker produced "There Is No Don", a live tribute to the late Don Joyce and his work, on July 23, 2015. Jon continues to produce and host Don's Over the Edge weekly radio program.

In 2015 he joined Splendor Generator with Bill Thibault, Tim Perkis and Xopher Davidson (of ANTIMATTER)."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wobbly_(musician))
10/2/2024

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James Sedwards is an English guitarist, musician and composer, working predominantly in the field of alternative rock. He is known for the groups Guapo, Nøught, The Devil, Thurston Moore Band, Vertical Smile, and Deadly Orgone Radiation.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/949963-James-Sedwards)
10/2/2024

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Jem Doulton is a London, Uk percussionist known for Thurston Moore Group, Too Many Things, Pando Pando, Heckle Chamber, and Melos Kalpa.

-Jem Doulton Website (https://jemdoulton.com/)
10/2/2024

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"Lætitia Sadier (born 6 May 1968), sometimes known as Seaya Sadier, is a French musician best known as a founding member of the London-based avant-pop band Stereolab. She was born in the east of Paris and spent time in the US as a child. In 1996, while Stereolab was still active, she formed the side project Monade. In 2009 - the same year Stereolab became inactive - she ended the Monade project and began to perform solo work under her own name; her current band is known as the Lætitia Sadier Source Ensemble. She has frequently performed guest vocals and collaborations with other artists. "

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A6titia_Sadier)
10/2/2024

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Track Listing:



1. New In Town 3:39

2. Sans Limites 5:07

3. Shadow 5:31

4. Hypnogram 7:35

5. We Get High 6:20

6. Rewilding 4:12

7. The Diver 8:06

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