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The Diamond Sea

Certain Songs #2365: Sonic Youth – “The Diamond Sea”

May 19, 2022 by Jim Connelly

Album: Washing Machine
Year: 1995

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In a way, it was inevitable that Sonic Youth would eventually record a song that was nearly 20 minutes long. But what wasn’t inevitable, of course, was that said 20 minute long song — OK, fine, 19:36 to be precise — would be so good, especially since the last two-thirds was nearly guitars circling each other with perfect interlocking swirls, the audio equivalent of that sea of diamonds before eventually noisying everything up.

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