Remote Control Go Sonic

After rampant speculation, Remote Control can confirm that we will be releasing in Australia a new studio album from Sonic Youth sometime in 2009 through Matador Records. Having fulfilled their contractual obligations to the Universal Music Group, Sonic Youth recently reached an agreement with Matador to release the band’s 16th album of new material.

While Sonic Youth’s status as one of the more innovative and influential bands of the past 30 years needs little explanation, the group’s most recent recordings for Geffen — 2006’s ‘Rather Ripped’ being their final for the label — rank amongst the current decade’s best.

Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley will commence recording the new Sonic Youth LP/CD this American autumn and we look forward to sharing further details in the very near future.

Check out sonicyouth.com for details of their many recent and upcoming pursuits, including the travelling museum exhibition Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix, which focusses on the multidisciplinary activities of the band since 1981, and the recently self-released CD Andre Side Af Sonic Youth.