Great grief was when the noise rock band Sonic Youth stopped in 2011 due to personal problems. Fortunately, the guitar violence, with which the quartet had built up an almost untouchable reputation over thirty years, did not end. The band members immediately started on new convincing (solo) projects, such as Body / Head and Chelsea Light Moving. However, comparisons with Sonic Youth were inevitable,
… because the new music was quite an extension of the influential band. Also singer / guitarist Thurston Moore cannot escape from The Best Day, his first solo album since the discontinuation of Sonic Youth and fourth in total. The characteristic barbed wire solos and strange chords are again in full glory. The same goes for drummer Steve Shelley who is joining a number of tracks and with whom half of his old band has already been restored. The Best Day, on the other hand, contains little noise and even relies largely on the acoustic style of Moore's previous solo album Demolished Thoughts (2011). This makes The Best Day very recognizable, but fortunately not an uninspired repetition exercise. (JE)more