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Mar 31, 2016 Web Exclusive By Marty Hill

Kim Gordon has pulled from her rich back catalogue of experimental guitar coups as co-founder of Sonic Youth before now. Namely, her other noise rock two-piece project, Body/Head, embodied the New York underground stalwart’s famed free spirit and effect-pedal indulgence on their 2013 debut Coming Apart to critical acclaim. On her out-of-nowhere collaboration with Tomorrow Tulips’ Alex Knost, the echoes of Sonic Youth are more akin to Daydream Nation than Confusion is Sex; in fact, the renowned pre-chorus of “Teenage Riot” is all but lifted straight on to penultimate cut “The Highline.”

For the most part, though, Glitterbust is more than a welcomed reference point. The record is less a head-on collision of Knost’s signature brand of hazy slacker pop and Gordon’s famed confrontational leftfield punk than it is a complete reconsideration of the pair’s prior dynamics. Loaded with striking sporadic guitar stabs, eerie atmospheres, and soaring, repetitious distortion motifs, it’s a record that maintains its convincing stray from indie rock’s constraints than perhaps either party has managed before. (www.burgerrecords.org)

Author rating: 6/10