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Thurston Moore Releases New Album "Flow Critical Lucidity" With Live Appearances

Upcoming Marianne Faithfull Covers Project with Courtney Love, Members of My Bloody Valentine, Portishead & More

September 18, 2024 - The Daydream Library Series record label will release Thurston Moore’s Flow Critical Lucidity this Friday, September 20. To celebrate, there will be an album listening party in Dolby Atmos at the legendary Olympic Studios in London on September 20, as well as an in-store performance and signing on September 22 at Rough Trade East. Moore will be returning to the scene of his recently-published memoir Sonic Life with New York events on December 1 at The 92nd Street Y with Anthony DeCurtis, plus a special week of improvisation from December 4-7 at The Stone in NYC and more below.

Pre-Order: Flow Critical Lucidity

Deemed “the best record Moore has been involved in since Sonic Youth’s The Eternal" by Grayson Haver Currin for MOJO, the album’s title comes from a lyric in previously released single “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. Past singles from the album include the cerebral “Hypnogram,” stirring Earth Day anthem “Rewilding,” the captivating yet tragic “The Diver,” as well as bonus track on flexi of the LP edition, “Isadora” with a music video starring Sky Ferreira.

Recently, Moore recorded Marianne Faithfull covers with Courtney Love, My Bloody Valentine’s Deb Googe, Portishead’s Adrian Utley, and PJ Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis for a project to be revealed soon.

Deb Googe via Instagram @googoogiegoo

 

2024 Thurston Moore Live Dates:

Nov 23: ‘Sonic Life’ Q&A @ Miami Book Fair (Miami)

Dec 1: ‘Sonic Life’ Conversation with Thurston Moore & Anthony DeCurtis @ The 92nd Street Y (NYC)

Dec 2: Grammy Museum Q&A and Performance @ National Sawdust (NYC)

Dec 4-7: Thurston Moore Performs with Lee Ranaldo & more @ The Stone (NYC)

Dec 9: Thurston Moore in conversation with Alec MacKaye @ Sixth & I (Washington, DC)

Dec 10: ‘Sonic Life’ Book Talk & Desolation Center Documentary Screening @ Tara (Atlanta)

 

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

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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 Xopher Davidson, 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.