SONIC YOUTH – EVOL

SONIC YOUTH – EVOL with special guest Dave Hallam

This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album.

EVOL – Sonic Youth 

Released in May 1986, Evol is the third full-length studio album by Sonic Youth. A raucous but beguiling mix of dissonance, attitude, weird guitar tunings, and beating rhythms (it was their first album with drummer Steve Shelley). Sonic Youth have been lauded by the likes of David Bowie who described them as the most Important group of the 1980s.

Sonic Youth released two further albums in the Eighties, Sister and Daydream Nation, but in the opinion of the website Pitchfork,  Evil is “the true departure point of Sonic Youth's musical evolution … where the seeds of greatness were sown”.

With special guest DAVE HASLAM

Dave Haslam is a DJ and writer whose 2018 memoir ‘Sonic Youth Slept on My Floor’ was hailed as book of the year by Gilles Peterson – he’s also the author of several other full-length and short format books. He staged two Sonic Youth shows in Manchester, in May 1986 and June 1987. He interviewed the band in Leeds for his fanzine and reviewed EVOL for ‘NME’ on its release.

In the interviewer’s chair was RYAN WALKER.

Happy Trails. 

This event took place on 27th July 2023 in the Pigeon Loft at The Robin Hood, Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

To find out more about the CAT Club please visit: www.thecatclub.co.uk

This podcast has been edited for content and for copyright reasons.

Happy Trails.