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This is the first pressing of Bad Moon Rising, made in UK and simultaneously released by Blast First in the UK and Homestead in the US. Subsequent US copies lose the custom labels, the Porky mastering, and the Blast First mention on the sleeve.
Matrix / Runout (Etchings side A): BFFP 1 A1 = HMS 016 A1 IT'S A BIRD IN THE HAND, IT'S A MODERN LAND - SONICS RENDESVOUZ. A PORKY PRIME CUT. MPO Matrix / Runout (Etchings side B): BFFP 1 B1 A PORKY PRIME CUT. HMS 016 B1 MPO PREPARE FOR THE WORST, HOPE FOR THE BEST.
An album quite unlike any other in the colorful Sonic Youth canon, Bad Moon Rising captures the New York band in 1985 during its most morose phase, one that is quite forbidding yet fascinating all the same. The proper album is an eight-song tapestry of droning guitar feedback, distant clattering percussion, and dreamy vocal mumblings, all of it woven together by sullen interludes of ambient noise. With the exception of the closing "Death Valley '69," nothing really stands out per se. Each song shares the same late-night shadowy feel as the others, with no outright singalong hooks to be found anywhere; it's just one ambling slab of dark noise rock. "Death Valley '69" then brings it all to a feverish close, driven by runaway guitar riffs and a frantic vocal duet by  and . It's a piercing capstone to an otherwise hazy album and is no doubt one of the highlights of Sonic Youth's overall output.   Overall, this music is a definite leap forward from what Sonic Youth had been doing previously on  (1983) and  (1983); it plays as one long piece, a work that perhaps reflects the spirit of the time, American gothic through the glassy eyes of willful moonlit paranoia. And as such, it's certainly a step toward  (1986), the band's successive release, which is likewise obsessed with the dark side of America and likewise informed by sweeping waves of ambient guitar noise, but much more song-based and focused than Bad Moon Rising's dreamscape feel.


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