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- Sister
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Sonic Youth
Released 1987

Catholic Block
03:26
5,039 plays

Beauty Lies In The Eye
02:19
4,023 plays

Tuff Gnarl
03:14
3,876 plays

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- 1
- Schizophrenia
- 04:38
- 13,635 plays

- 2
- Catholic Block
- 03:26
- 5,039 plays

- 3
- Beauty Lies In The Eye
- 02:19
- 4,023 plays

- 4
- Stereo Sanctity
- 03:50
- 3,838 plays

- 5
- Pipeline/Kill Time
- 04:35
- 3,509 plays

- 6
- Tuff Gnarl
- 03:14
- 3,876 plays

- 7
- Pacific Coast Highway
- 04:17
- 3,169 plays

- 8
- Hot Wire My Heart
- 03:23
- 3,202 plays

- 9
- Cotton Crown
- 05:08
- 3,178 plays

- 10
- White Cross
- 02:58
- 3,165 plays

- 11
- Master-Dik
- 05:10
- 2,632 plays

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album review

EVOL was a major leap forward for Sonic Youth, but Sister is a masterpiece, demonstrating the group's rapidly evolving musicality. More than ever before, Sonic Youth's songs sound like actual songs, and their collages of noise, distortion, and alternate tunings are now used to provide texture and depth to the music, which is original, complex, and rewarding. Not only is there the full-throttle roar of "Tuff Gnarl," but there are shimmering layers of ambient harmonics and dissonance that are as haunting and challenging as any of their barrages of feedback. Furthermore, Sister has a warm sound, which lures the listeners into music that's defiantly arty but never indulgent. It's one of the singular art rock records of the '80s, surpassed only by Sonic Youth's next album, Daydream Nation. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide