Evol is an Alt/Indie album by Sonic Youth, originally released in 1986. On Gatefold: 71 pressings tracked, owned by 38 collectors.
About
The band’s first album with Steve Shelley in the drum seat, <i>Evol</i> is when Sonic Youth’s sound really starts to cohere, even if many songs are so volatile that they blow apart or dissolve into abstraction. One of the latter is “Tom Violence,” a noise-rock anthem that demonstrates the band’s shift from no-wave abrasiveness to more varied forms of aural assault and battery. The atonal delirium of “Expressway to Yr Skull” is the most powerful sign of Sonic Youth’s new strength and purpose.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Tom Violence3:04
- A2Shadow Of A Doubt3:30
- A3Star Power4:46
- A4In The Kingdom # 193:22
- A5Green Light3:39
Side B
- B1Death To Our Friends3:17
- B2Secret Girl2:50
- B3Marilyn Moore4:02
- B4Expressway To Yr. Skull
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Alternative Rock
- raw
- intense
- nocturnal
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Engineered at Before Christ, March 1986.
Cover girl: Lung Leg from "Submit to me" a film by Richard Kern.
Track B4 is titled on the back cover as "Madonna, Sean And Me" and on the lyric sheet as "The Crucifixion Of Sean Penn."
Track B4 ends on a locked groove. The duration listed on the label is ∞, i.e., infinity.
Includes insert containing lyrics, photographs, and drawings.
Lacquer cut at, mastered at, mastered by, and pressed by information identified by runout etchings.
This version can be identified by the runout grooves, which lack the etched out sequence found on subsequent pressings (opens in a new tab) and by the back cover, which lacks a barcode (opens in a new tab) and has a slightly different layout.
Runouts are etched except "kdisc" is stamped.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Kim GordonBAND , GUITAR , VOCALS, DRUMS BASS BASS, VOCALS
- Lee RanaldoBAND , GUITAR , VOCALS, DRUMS GUITAR GUITAR, VOCALS
- Steve ShelleyBAND , GUITAR , VOCALS, DRUMS DRUMS GUITAR, VOCALS, DRUMS
- Thurston MooreBAND , GUITAR , VOCALS, DRUMS GUITAR GUITAR, VOCALS
- Mike WattBASS
38 collectors on Gatefold own this · 71 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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