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Mirror/Dash - I Can't Be Bought (Three Lobed)
Mirror/Dash is the eternal duo of Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, going completely free-form for the experimental Le Weekend Festival in Scotland. Recorded live in May of 2005, the disc is one song covering their entire performance clocking in at nearly 40 minutes and the final edition to Three Lobed's stellar
Modern Containment CD EP subscription series. The music contained herein falls decidedly on the experimental side of Youth projects. It starts off calmly enough with Moore's clicking strums and pauses meeting Gordon's husk whispering run through some sort of light effects. Soon, underlying feedback whines foreshadow coming noisy intensities; Moore guitar playing becomes more and more fevered as Gordon adds strings that are the closest the album will approach to melody. Then, losing any pretense as to 'playing' their guitars, the couple delves into their trademarked arena of the harsh. The section is quelled with surprising brevity and they return to strumming over what sounds like shortwave radio transmissions. The playing here wouldn't sound out of place on a standard Youth release but soon the feedback returns, along with Gordon's alternately effected/not-effected voice. Over the last several minutes, the musical component becomes softer and softer, punctuated by Gordon's repeated cries of "Shake!" before a final crescendo of guitars, voice, and the album's first instance of percussion ends the set to excited applause. Ultimately, your enjoyment of the disc comes down to your devotion to Sonic Youth and position on Gordon's famed voice, as this is the sort of recording geared nearly solely towards pre-existing fans. If you consider yourself one, hurry and get your hands on it.