Murray Street (album)

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Murray Street is a 2002 album by Sonic Youth. It features seven tracks ranging from epic ("Sympathy for the Strawberry") to short and intentionally shallow ("Plastic Sun"). The album was well received critically. It was the first album by the group to feature Jim O'Rourke as an official fifth member.

Members of noise improv group Borbetomagus guest on "Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style."

This Sonic Youth album set the beginning of a new, cleaner, more mature sound, obviously hinting at 70s classic rock bands.

One of the young girls photographed for the cover is Coco Hayley Gordon Moore, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon's daughter.

The back cover features a photograph of an office building on the southeast corner of Murray Street and Park Place near Ground Zero in Manhattan. The address is 75 Park Place.

Track listing

1. "The Empty Page" (lyrics Thurston) – 4:20
2. "Disconnection Notice" (lyrics Thurston) – 6:24
3. "Rain on Tin" (lyrics Thurston) – 7:56
4. "Karen Revisited" (lyrics Lee) – 11:11
5. "Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style" (lyrics Thurston) – 4:27
6. "Plastic Sun" (lyrics Kim) – 2:14
7. "Sympathy for the Strawberry" (lyrics Kim) – 9:06
8. "Street Sauce" (bonus track on Japanese version only) – 7:34

Credits

All songs by Sonic Youth: Kim Gordon, Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Thurston Moore, Jim O'Rourke
Published by Sonik Tooth (BMI) and Field Code Music (BMI)
Recorded and mixed by Jim O'Rourke @ Echo Canyon, NYC, August 2001-March 2002
Assistant Engineer: Aaron Mullan
Produced by Sonic Youth
Mastered by John Golden
Horns on Radical Adults: Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich
Cover photo: Monique Voorhout, "Stella and Coco in Hoofdplaat, 2001"
Band/fan photos: Stefano Giovannini
Tray card photos: Thurston
Art direction: Frank Olinsky
Thanks: Chris Habib, Don Fleming, Tim Glasgow, Nic Close, Laurence Kern, Bob Lawton, Carlos van Hijfte, John Silva, Michele Fleischli, Michael Meisel, Richard Grabel, Peter Van der Velde, Pery Serpa, Lynn Walsh, Marcia Hyman