A host of notable live shows, an interactive online film soundtrack, Thurston covering John Lennon with Sean Lennon, and that Yoko Ono book/kite aside, it had been all quiet on the official Sonic Youth news front ever since Lee Ranaldo boasted about LP17 and a live DVD being in the works a year ago. Well, when it rains, it pours…
Per SY’s Facebook page (via Slicing Up Eyeballs), the band are set to reissue 2 early albums — 1985’s Bad Moon Rising and 1987’s Sister — while also putting finishing touches on the soundtrack to French thriller Simon Werner a Disparu for an upcoming release. What’s more, a subsequent FB update posted today reads: “re-mixing a killer sonic youth live set from 1985 for release in 2011.”
And yet, Thurston Moore has still found time amid all that to prepare another solo release. In addition to the previously announced book/album In Silver Rain with a Paper Key, Moore is prepping another album, titled Benediction, for 2011. According to Moore’s blog, Samara Lubelski and harpist Mary Lattimore, who will perform an improvised piece in Philadelphia with Moore and Bill Nace in a few weeks, have contributed to the recording.