Thurston Moore: Demolished Thought – review

A more relaxed attitude to experimentation than a young, guitar-abusing Sonic Youth would have countenanced has informed their recent records: 2006's Rather Ripped explored the taut parameters of the three-minute pop song and here Thurston Moore, half of the band's central couple, creates something equally satisfying out of the moods and textures of folk music. Beck produces and his own acoustic record Sea Change is an obvious point of comparison. But the slowly unfolding quality of many of these tracks recalls psych-folk group Espers, while "Circulation"'s controlled energy sounds like nothing so much as an unplugged Sonic Youth.