Sonic Youth are caught under the influence

Every track on the New York noise rockers' new album, The Eternal, provides a nod towards artists they admire and a portal to an underground wonderworldIn the early 1980s NME featured a column called Portrait of the Artist as a Consumer. Every week a musician listed their favourite records, books, films and TV, maybe an artist or two, sometimes clothes or food. Typically, there'd be a mixture of eternal talismans and fleeting fancies. Now magazines are littered with charticles, lists and celeb-r...

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