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Originally Posted by themawt71
looking forward to the blonde redhead reissue of the first two records with bonus stuff.
the first four records def had sy in em but they were never a sy ripoff band like, i think, a lot of folks thought.
the drums, the harmony/chords and the singing always set them apart.
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I agree. Their earlier albums definitely had a stronger similarity to SY than the later ones, but at no point in their career have they been SY ripoffs. Influenced by Sonic Youth, abso-fucking-lutely. But really I think a lot of the ripoff accusations come from folks with pretty simple minds who see an art-punk/indie kind of band with a dominant female presence and their brains resort to making easy, surface level comparisons to familiar tropes.
Blond Redhead kinda got the cultural shaft in a lot of ways because they couldn't shake the "new Sonic Youth" label, and by the time they started making records that bore virtually no similarity whatsoever to anything in SY's catalog, they were basically has-beens. Notice how little coverage or love they get these days? I think the same thing happened to Deerhoof somewhere around 2010.
Deerhoof just dropped a new album by the way.