Preview Sonic Youth's The Eternal

This is your chance to hear The Eternal's black metal-influenced lyrics and heavy ass weirdo hooks, albeit in supremely truncated form. At first the teaser's a frustrating listen: Each time something lands and sounds promising, it's onto the next snippet. After a while, if you accept it as the patchwork collage it is and dig your feet in some, it does offer insight into what the band's Matador debut will sound like, be about. The word "meditation" comes up a couple times, levitation, a leaky ...

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