Album Review: Thurston Moore - Rock N Rock Consciousness

Sonic Youth guitar slinger Thurston Moore reunites with past collaborators to produce his latest solo effort, Rock N Roll Consciousness. 

Moore's familiarity with his peers (including fellow Sonic Youth bandmate Steve Shelley) pays off in spades with this confident, relaxed and expansive new record. Moore has always vacillated between skewed punk/art-pop and experimental soundscapes and here he finds an immersive and endlessly fascinating balance between both worlds - whether it's billowy, dreamy textural passages, hypnotic Krautrock trances or screes of distortion. It all adds up to an invigorating widescreen listen that more than lives up to Moore's high quality artistic output.