Spirit counsel

"In many ways, Thurston Moore's songs for Sonic Youth were defined by the struggle between his experimental impulses and more traditional rock structures. On his more daring work, the sprawl would eclipse recognizable song form altogether, landing in a cloudy, guitar-based reading of free jazz ... Spirit Counsel is an ambitious but focused masterwork of Moore's expansive and specific approach to experimental instrumental music. Still locked in the trappings and instrumentation of indie rock, the three-movement album stretches out over almost two-and-a-half hours of durational compositional pieces for a small army of guitars, drums, and electronics".

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"... Moore is following up his most straight-up rockin' album to date-2017's Rock n Roll Consciousness-with a three-disc box set consisting of three mammoth instrumental movements that collectively run for over two and a half hours, he's using the opportunity to build a bridge across the avant/rock divide instead of a wall. Even with its imposing length, Spirit Counsel is arguably the most accessible entry point into Moore's boundless experimental canon".

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