Review: Sonic Youth's vaults get plundered for the umpteenth time here, but it's a no less welcome feat than the times it's happened before. 'In/Out/In', compiled in collaboration with US label Three Lobed, gathers 5 lost cuts never heard before from the band. Rather than being pulled from their late-80s and 90s heyday, all these bits were recorded in the noughties, as part of a spate of studio and writing jams that led to the bulk of their 2009 album 'The Eternal'. Raucousness is abandoned for slow-building, ethereal post rock: 'In & Out' nails a ritual jig in 2/4, while 'Social Static' and 'Machine' lend wailing noise and alarms to consonantly emotive chords and Gordon's teeth-clenched vocals.
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