Thurston Moore Shares Velvet Underground Cover “Temptation Inside Your Heart”

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September 13 @ Oslo Hackney (London, UK) w/ Big Joanie

Friday, August 29 (London, UK) — Today, legendary musician Thurston Moore released a special cover of The Velvet Underground’s "Temptation Inside Your Heart" in celebration of Sterling Morrison’s birthday.

Featuring Deb Googe, James Sedwards, and Jem Doulton, Moore’s take on“Temptation Inside Your Heart” channels The Velvet Underground’s wry cool while pushing it into his own territory, with layers of electro-clatter and distortion. The release drops just ahead of Thurston Moore Group’s September 13 show at London’s Oslo Hackney, with support from Black feminist punk band Big Joanie.

“Temptation Inside Your Heart”: Listen / Watch

This follows Moore’s latest critically acclaimed album Flow Critical Lucidity, released last fall on The Daydream Library Series record label. Deemed “the best record Moore has been involved in since Sonic Youth’s The Eternal" by Grayson Haver Currin for MOJO and “an album that encapsulates his signature guitar-driven charm and dives deep into his experimental roots” by GRAMMY.com, the project’s title comes from a lyric in previously released single “Sans Limites” featuring vocals by Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab.

The album also features bass player Deb Googe of My Bloody Valentine, Jon Leidecker, James Sedwards, Jem Doulton and lyrics by Radieux Radio. The album cover art is 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 recounted in Sonic Life, the two often collaborating in art & music.

Fans of Sonic Youth & Thurston Moore will be delighted that all tracks from the album are available via 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.

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 seven years in operation! Thurston & Eva founded the label in 2018. They have released music by London feminist punk band Big Joanie, 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.