Rather Ripped is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 13, 2006, by Geffen Records. It was the band's first album following the departure of multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke, who had joined as a fifth member in 1999. Unlike its immediate predecessors, the album was produced by John Agnello and recorded at Sear Sound in New York City, the same studio where the band's 1994 album, Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, was recorded. It also completed Sonic Youth's contract with Geffen, which released the band's previous eight records.
Rather Ripped is considered to be one of Sonic Youth's most accessible albums, featuring an abundance of concise songs dealing with melancholic topics such as adultery, sexual frustration, and infidelity. Upon its release, the album peaked at number 71 on the US Billboard 200 and number 64 on the UK Albums Chart. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised its simpler, cleaner melodies and the vocal delivery of singer and bassist Kim Gordon. The album was ranked number 12 in The Village Voice's 2006 Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Its only single, "Incinerate", was released in 2006, alongside an accompanying music video directed by French director and writer Claire Denis.
RatherRipped is the fourteenth studio album by American rock band Sonic Youth, released on June 13, 2006, by Geffen Records. It was the band's first...
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their daughter Coco, performing the song "What a Waste" from the album RatherRipped. In September 2008, Gordon launched a limited-edition fashion line called...
initially reached out to Starbucks to promote their fourteenth studio album RatherRipped (2006) in the company's coffeehouses, however, this suggestion was halted...
Boredoms' Yoshimi P-We. In 2006, Ibold joined Sonic Youth on their RatherRipped tour, and as of their 2009 album The Eternal, was a full participating...
houses, singing in the streets, and the counter at Berkeley record store RatherRipped Records with future bandmate and Earth Quake guitarist Gary Phillips...
the video for the song "Incinerate" by Sonic Youth, from their album RatherRipped. Bastards was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013...
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the city, stabbed her in excess of fifty times around the head and body, ripped open her chest and excised her lower bowel and uterus. By January 1983,...
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