After twenty-three years of explosive creativitySonic Youth throws down what may be their heaviestclassic since the genre-breaking DaydreamNation. Nurse is the nineteenth long player by theNew York City supernova, an action explosion Timemagazine has already tagged as "Sonic Youth's mostadventurous and soul-stirring release to date, by agoddamn country mile."

Ten songs of Americanbeauty and sonic death: on "Pattern Recognition"Kim Gordon takes Justin Timberlake's hand andsticks it in a tendon-shredding meat grinder; theygay marriage the hell out of religious zealot war pigsCheney, Rumsfeld, Bush and Ashcroft with themeditative "Peace Attack"; Bare Trees-era FleetwoodMac jams with Jealous Again-era Black Flagon the heart-pounding "Unmade Bed" and "I LoveYou Golden Blue"; the core reactor awesomenessof "Paper Cup Exit" reduces such legends as LedZeppelin and Yes to just so much British schoolboywhimpering.

1. Pattern Recognition
2. Unmade Bed
3. Dipping Dream
4. Kim Gordon And The Arthur Doyle Hand Cream
5. Stones
6. Dude Ranch Nurse
7. New Hampshire
8. Paper Cup Exit
9. I Love You Golden Blue
10. Peace Attack