Thurston Moore Announces Ninth Solo Album Flow Critical Lucidity Out September 20

June 20, 2024 (London, UK) - The Daydream Library Series record label has announced Thurston Moore’s new full length album Flow Critical Lucidity to be released on September 20 - pre-orders available today. The album’s title comes from a lyric in the new single also released today, “Sans Limites” featuring vocals by Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab. The album sleeve cover art features Jamie Nares’ ‘Samurai Walkman’ — a helmet befitted with tuning forks. Born in Great Britain, Nares is a lifelong friend of Moore from his New York No Wave days, the two often collaborating in art & music. 

Fans of Sonic Youth & Thurston Moore will be delighted to learn that all tracks from the album will be released via all streaming platforms with a selection of bonus songs exclusive to the physical release on vinyl, compact disc & cassette.

Listen / Share: “Sans Limites” 

Pre-Order: Flow Critical Lucidity

“‘Sans Limites’ begins with a cyclic guitar & piano figure which expands further and further with each revolution before settling into a two-chord measure introducing lyrics intoning not only about eradicating any limitations towards enlightenment, but going beyond limitations. The idea that a soldier can fight the good fight. A warrior against war,” Moore explains. 

He recorded the song with his group - Deb Googe (bass), Jem Doulton (percussion), James Sedwards (guitar & piano) and Jon Leidecker (electronics), with additional backing vocals by guest musician Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab. The single is a luminous and inspiring five minute and seven second song written & arranged in Switzerland and the UK. “Grow up to the stars / Speak to infinity .…” Thurston sings over piano and guitar.

This follows three previously released singles from the upcoming album - the energetic Isadora Duncan-inspired “Isadora” with a music video starring Sky Ferreira, cerebral “Hypnogram” and stirring Earth Day anthem “Rewilding.” 

Some of the songs from Moore’s ninth solo recording were written & arranged in Europe and The United Kingdom - including lyrical references to their environments inspired by nature, lucid dreaming, modern dance and Isadora Duncan. The album was arranged at La Becque in Switzerland and recorded at Total Refreshment Studios in London in 2022, and mixed at Hermitage Studios in London with Margo Broom in 2023.

On May 10, Thurston Moore surprised ticket holders of his show at an experimental listening room OTO in North London with a secret guest. Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones joined Moore for two sets of wild improvisation and is inciting concert. Thurston has confirmed live appearances in 2024, including reading engagements of his recently-published memoir Sonic Life and a carefully curated selection of live concerts with his group currently comprised of Alex Ward on guitars & clarinet, Deb Googe on bass, Jon Leidecker (aka ‘Wobbly’) on electronics and Jem Doulton on drums.

 

Thurston Moore (Group) has confirmed they will appear: 

Kongsberg Festival in Norway on July 6, 2024 

Way Out West Festival in Sweden on August 8, 2024

 

Flow Critical Lucidity Track Listing

1. New in Town

2. Sans Limites +

3. Shadow *

4. Hypnogram

5. We Get High

6. Rewilding

7. The Diver

Bonus track on flexi of LP edition: Isadora (Bedazzled Mix)

 

Title: Flow Critical Lucidity Catalogue no. DLS016 Vocals, Guitar: Thurston Moore Bass: Deb Googe Electronics: Jon Leidecker Piano, organ, guitar, glockenspiel: James Sedwards Percussion: Jem Doulton

Backing vocals: Laetitia Sadier on + Lyrics: Radieux Radio, except * Recorded in London at Total Refreshment Centre and mixed by Margo Broom Art: Jamie Nares Label: Daydream Library Series Distrib

About Thurston Moore: Thurston Moore moved to New York at eighteen in 1976 to play punk. He started Sonic Youth in 1980. Since then Thurston Moore has been at the forefront of the alternative rock scene since that particular sobriquet was first used to signify any music that challenged and defied the mainstream standard. With Sonic Youth, Moore turned on an entire generation to the value of experimentation in rock n roll – from its inspiration on a nascent Nirvana, to Sonic Youth’s own Daydream Nation album being chosen by the US Library of Congress for historical preservation in the National Recording Registry. Thurston records and performs in a cavalcade of disciplines ranging from free improvisation to acoustic composition to black/white metal/noise disruption. He has worked with Phill Niblock, John Paul Jones, Yoko Ono, John Zorn, Bobby Gillespie, David Toop, Cecil Taylor, Faust, Glenn Branca and many others. His residency at the Louvre in Paris included collaborations with Irmin Schmidt of CAN. Alongside his various activities in the musical world, he is involved with publishing and poetry, and teaches with his partner Eva at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, Boulder CO, a programme founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman in 1974. Thurston also teaches music at The Rhythmic Music Conservatory (Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium) in Copenhagen.

About The Daydream Library Series: The Daydream Library Series independent record label has just celebrated five years in operation! Thurston & Eva founded the label in 2018. They have released music by electronic musician XopherDavidson, Caribbean jazz shoegaze quartet Seafoam Walls, the debut EP from Devon Ross, the debut album by Schande, a sound-healing recording by Katherina Bornefeld, and a 7-inch by Miami’s bilingual beauties Las Nubes.   For more information, please contact Shore Fire Media: Shannon Cosgrove (scosgrove@shorefire.com)