One day in 2003 I went by the Sonic Youth studio to pick something up, or drop something off. When I got there Kim and Jim were recording a track for a compilation album, and asked if I wanted to play on it. I don't know whose idea it was for me to do vocals, but that's what I did, in a kind of sound poetry style. Needless to say, this was not a road I traveled too far down. We wound up recording two tracks that day, which came out under the band name The Supreme Indifference; one was on the Kill Rock Stars label comp "Fields & Streams" and the other on a split 7"also on KRS called "Night School" with Goxxip, Erase Errata, and Sleetmute Nightmute. A few months later Issue Project Room asked me to put together a bill for the first annual Howl Festival, so I arranged for the Supreme Indifference's first and only live show. Since Kim and Jim played drums on the recordings, we got our friends Chris Corsano and Tim Barnes to play drums for this show. It was sort of No Wave-themed in that two ex-members of Mars also played on the bill (Connie Burg in Gerry Miles, Mark Cunningham in Convolution). A fun night.
credits
released June 5, 2020
Kim Gordon: vocal, guitar
Alan Licht: vocal
Jim O'Rourke: synth
Tim Barnes: drums
Chris Corsano: drums
Recorded live at Issue Project Room, August 26, 2003
supported by 25 fans who also own “The Supreme Indifference Live”
Sonic Youth is one of those bands where you easily run out of superlatives to describe what they created. This could've easily come off as a cynical cash-grab by a band that had broken up 11 years prior to the release of this record, but that's not what this is. Some of my favourite Sonic Youth instrumentals. sentient meat
supported by 24 fans who also own “The Supreme Indifference Live”
Deep, mind-bending psych. I don't know how it was put together, but it feels very organic, like early Nurse With Wound. I could see Gordon, Dilloway, and Nace sitting among a pile of junk and miles of tape, splicing together this album piece by piece. Levrikon
supported by 24 fans who also own “The Supreme Indifference Live”
This album includes an excellent live performance of Diamond Sea, one of my favorite SY tracks that doesn’t appear on many of their live albums on Bandcamp. This was from the era when I first got into SY. elliottmaraniss
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