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Sonic Youth
Free City Rhymes
Album: NYC Ghosts & Flowers
Genres: Alternative
Melody for the pop purists, droning jams for the indie purists -- there's something for everyone on this new track from the godfathers of alternative rock.

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	It's astounding just how much of an impact Sonic Youth have had on the legions of indie rockers that have followed in their wake. Just listen to the one-note guitar melody that opens this track and you'll get the picture. "Free City Rhymes," off their latest album, NYC Ghosts and Flowers, is full of non-melodic clanging, the kind that makes indie purists squirm with delight. But the genius of Sonic Youth has always been their ability to transcend the very art-rock pretensions in which lesser bands become mired, and the same holds true here. For though the track is bookended by free-form, fuzzed-out drone, its middle contains a near-pop song delicately sung by Thurston Moore. Nevermind that the band recorded on all new, unfamiliar instruments (their equipment having been stolen prior to the recording of the album). They sound as comfortable and composed as ever. Indie infants, take note: You can learn a lot from your elders.

	*Nina Pearlman*
	Nina Pearlman is the former Senior Editor of The Rocket, a Seattle-based publication devoted to covering music in the Pacific Northwest. Now a Seattle-based freelancer, she writes for such print publications as Magnet and AP, as well as web sites like Atomic Pop and CDNow.