Tag: Simon Werner a Disparu

New releases: Sonic Youth’s French film soundtrack, plus The Godfathers reissues

This week’s new releases include Sonic Youth’s experimental French film soundtrack ‘Simon Werner a Disparu,’ plus a pair of reissues from The Godfathers (‘Birth School Work Death,’ ‘More Songs Above Love and Hate’).

Sonic Youth's 'SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu' soundtrack set for release Jan. 25

Sonic Youth’s ‘SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu’ soundtrack set for release Jan. 25

As we reported earlier this month, Sonic Youth is preparing to release its soundtrack to the French film ‘Simon Werner a Disparu’ (aka ‘Lights Out’) as SYR9 in the long-running Sonic Youth Recordings series — and today the band revealed the release date, tracklist and cover art for the project.

Sonic Youth preps 'Bad Moon Rising,' 'Sister' vinyl reissues, 1985 live album, SYR9 release

Sonic Youth preps ‘Bad Moon Rising,’ ‘Sister’ vinyl reissues, 1985 live album, SYR9 release

Sonic Youth will reissue two more early albums — 1985’s ‘Bad Moon Rising’ and 1987’s ‘Sister’ — on 180-gram audiophile vinyl in the coming weeks as they prep a French film soundtrack to be released as SYR9 in the Sonic Youth Recordings series and mix a new live album recorded in 1985.