Presented By Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (Film Screening) Plus Q&A
with Lance Bangs Sonic Youth released their sixth album Daydream
Nation on October 18,1988. The album was an immediate critical
success. Robert Palmer wrote in Rolling Stone that it “presents the
definitive American guitar band of the Eighties at the height of its
powers and prescience”. Time has not dimmed the album’s lustre: It
was selected to the Library of Congress’s National Recording
Registry in 2005, and in 2013 Consequence of Sound declared “the
record simply rules.” Lance Bangs's new Sonic Youth concert film
"Daydream Nation" presents the band performing the titular double
album in Glasgow on August 21st and 22, 2007. Bangs blends HD footage
shot in Glasgow with fragments of personal Super8mm and 16mm from his
archives of Sonic Youth over the decades. Sonic Youth performed
“Daydream Nation” in its entirety less than 20 times during a 2007
tour, often at festivals or outdoor venues. This document captures one
of the few indoor club performances; a setting SY member Thurston
Moore always claimed was the type of venue for which the songs were
written. Glasgow had been a great city for the band’s tours, and the
live sets shown in the film received a 5 star review in the Guardian.
"Daydream Nation" the film features multitrack audio of this material
with a fidelity beyond any 1980's documents, and offers a performance
of this material by musicians who are simply more experienced and more
adept with their instruments. The joy of the band and the audience are
a sight to behold; the band and the fans joined together in
celebration of this landmark album (10/10 NME, 10/10 Spin Alternative
Record Guide, 5 Stars in The Rolling Stone Album Guide, 10.0 in
Pitchfork, A from Robert Christgau in The Village Voice)
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