This is the one thing that our local
college radio station plays more than any one particular thing. You listen in, and you hear this kind of interesting, somewhat
experimental, elegantly sculpted,
organic arrangement of
electric guitars and
distortion and
feedback so heavy they become an
instrument all by themselves, and usually a man or a woman
singing in a slightly
cracking voice so
barely musical they're almost
talking. Your reaction to this is, of course, "hey, this kind of sounds like the
Sonic Youth!".. except a lot of the time it turns out to just be some small band, either
unsigned,
local or just
really obscure, that happens to draw so much inspiration from the
Sonic Youth that they appear to be ripping the
Sonic Youth off.
Usually the better it is, the more likely it is to be a real Sonic Youth song, but this isn't always the case. Either way it's usually worth listening to, but it's kind of annoying to be acutely aware of the fact you might know what you're listening to but you probably don't. If you can ignore that one detail, this kind of music is really easy to enjoy.