Sonic youth legend Thurston Moore has unveiled a new track titled ‘Burroughs’ with the band Chelsea Light Moving.
Being the father of distortion, the track is a typical ramshackle of clamoring guitars and minimal vocals ending in a glorious mess just after the six minute mark.
The band consists of Thuraton Moore (guitar/vox/songwriter), Keith Wood (guitar), Samara Lubelski (bass) and John Moloney (drums).
‘Burroughs’ is the first track from a session recorded in the Western Massachusetts in the springtime of 2012. It was inspired by the last words of experimental novelist William S. Burroughs(Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded etc), for example: “Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.” Their sound has also been described as: “Wild Boys looking to jack hypos of core passion into their veins. Boy on boy. Girl on girl.”
After sitting in the orgone box (a structure that is supposed to restore orgone energy to the person in it, which was intended to cure cancer, impotence and the common cold etc) planted in Burroughs’ back yard of Lawrence, Kansas in the midpoint of the ‘90s, Thurston Moore came to the realisation that at some point he’d need to form a band that played ‘Burroughs Rock’.
The track was recorded and mixed May 18-20, 2012, by Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab, Easthampton, MA.
Download ‘Burroughs’ HERE.
Words by Jamie Carson
