Thurston Moore announces details of new album The Best Day, just in time for a new batch of college freshmen to discover him!

Thurston Moore announces details of new album The Best Day, just in time for a new batch of college freshmen to discover him!

If I was Thurston Moore (a man can dream, can’t he?), I’d be making all of my various hints, announcements, prognostications, and declarations about my new guitar-band projects through one of those wah-wah guitar talk-box thingies. I mean, pretty much just seems like an obviously-awesome way to do things, if you ask me: obnoxious, pretentious, high-tech; kind of a no-brainer for a guitar legend, right?

As it stands, however, Moore has chosen the far, FAR more banal, conventional, and played-out medium of the Standard Written English prose to keep us updated on his latest “Sonic-Youth-but-with-some-sort-of-inconsequential-twist”-type projects. This newest one is, like I mentioned before a new album called The Best Day, which features Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley, as well as My Bloody Valentine’s Debbie Googe and London-based musician James Sedwards.

But yeah. Basically: we didn’t know a release date before. Boom. Now we do (October 24). We didn’t know the tracklisting before. Now we do (see below). We didn’t know a few of the late October live dates before. Now we’ve got them (yup, see below!). And — assuming that we’d never heard Sonic Youth before in our entire lives — we had ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA what the title track could possibly sound like! Boom. Now we do (again, yeah, right down there). Are we good, then? Allons-y, readers! Bring on the pertinent information! Even if it is written out in boring old milquetoast English words and numbers. Thanks for the update, Thursty. <3

The Best Day tracklisting:

01. Speak to the Wild
02. Forevermore
03. Tape
04. The Best Day
05. Detonation
06. Vocabularies
07. Grace Lake
08. Germs Burn

Thurston Moore Band tourdates:

08.21.14 - Paredes De Coura, Portugal - Paredes De Coura Festival
08.23.14 - Lausanne, Switzerland - For Noise Festival
08.24.14 - Paris, France - Rock en Seine
08.29.14 - Mirminham, UK - Moseley Folk Fest
09.05.14 - Raleigh, NC - Hopscotch Music Festival
09.07.14 - Toronto, ON - Riot Fest Toronto
09.12.14 - Victoria, BC - Rifflandia Festival
09.14.14 - Chicago, IL - Riot Fest Chicago
10.03.14 - Vancouver, BC - Biltmore Cabaret *
10.04.14 - Seattle, WA - Neumo’s *
10.07.14 - San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
10.08.14 - Santa Cruz, CA - Catalyst Atrium *
10.10.14 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex *
10.11.14 - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room *
10.21.14 - Brooklyn, NY - St. Vitus
10.22.14 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
10.23.14 - Hamden, CT - The Ballroom at the Outer Space
10.24.14 - Pawtucket, RI - The Met
10.25.14 - Philadelphia, PA - Boot & Saddle
10.26.14 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade NYC

* Sebadoh

• Thurston Moore: https://www.facebook.com/ThurstonMooreOfficial
• Matador: http://www.matadorrecords.com

[Photo: Phil Sharp]

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