Name: Chelsea Light MovingFrom: New York, New York
Story: Thurston's got a brand new band
Sound: Suitably Sonic Youthy
Recognize that gangly gent on the right there? Of course you do. It's our old pal Thurston Moore, as legendary an indie-music figure as there gets. And following the demise —well, the hiatus, at least— of Sonic Youth in the wake of Moore's divorce to Kim Gordon, he has himself a brand new band.
Chelsea Light Moving is the band. It finds Moore roping in the band that joined him on his last solo tour —violinist/bassist Samara Lubelski, and guitarist Keith Wood and drummer John Moloney (who've both done time in Sunburned Hand of the Man)— and making them a permanent unit.
Where Thurston solo found acoustic instrumentation, Chelsea Light Moving is a rock unit of familiar sound to any Sonic Youth fans: angular, oddly-tuned guitar klang; insistent, cymbal-smashing percussion; a sense of walloping momentum; lyrical obsession with the All-American mythologies of beat poetry and New York City.
Two Chelsea Light Moving tunes have appeared so far —first "Burroughs," then "Groovy and Linda," both homages to old counter-cultural figures— and, given they've been dispatched by Matador, you get the sense that Moore and crew are working towards dispatching a debut album soon-ish; maybe even before 2012 is out.
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