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Sonic Youth’s 1992 album Dirty takes the band’s trademark noise, alternate tunings, and guitar experimentation and crashes it straight into the heart of the alternative-rock explosion. Produced by Butch Vig, the record is heavier and more immediate than much of their earlier work without sanding down the weird edges. “100%,” “Sugar Kane,” and “Youth Against Fascism” deliver distortion-soaked hooks, while Kim Gordon’s snarling “Drunken Butterfly” and “Swimsuit Issue” give the album some of its fiercest moments.
Noisy, confrontational, strangely catchy, and unmistakably Sonic Youth, Dirty is where art-school experimentation and early-’90s alternative rock meet in one glorious wall of feedback.
Sonic Youth’s 1992 album Dirty takes the band’s trademark noise, alternate tunings, and guitar experimentation and crashes it straight into the heart of the alternative-rock explosion. Produced by Butch Vig, the record is heavier and more immediate than much of their earlier work without sanding down the weird edges. “100%,” “Sugar Kane,” and “Youth Against Fascism” deliver distortion-soaked hooks, while Kim Gordon’s snarling “Drunken Butterfly” and “Swimsuit Issue” give the album some of its fiercest moments.
Noisy, confrontational, strangely catchy, and unmistakably Sonic Youth, Dirty is where art-school experimentation and early-’90s alternative rock meet in one glorious wall of feedback.