1998
Noah’s Barks pages covering things relating to the year 1998.
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Sonic Youth – “A Thousand Leaves” (1998)
Latter career Sonic Youth, meaning A Thousand Leaves sounds more melodic than their earlier stuff and has less of an attitude. That’s not a bad thing though, because the band has crafted some beautiful stuff past their heyday, and some of it’s on this album. The Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo tracks are consistently great… (read more)
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The Smashing Pumpkins – “Adore” (1998)
On The Smashing Pumpkins’s fourth studio album, the band trades in its guitar heavy grunge-influenced playing for the more subtle, sensual textures that pervaded the band’s previous album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Gone are the roaring guitar and vocal screams of Billy Corgan, replacing them, the subdued synthesizers and mellow atmosphere of Adore.… (read more)
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Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” (1998)
This is a good album, though I can’t help but feel disappointed while listening to it. Everyone seems to agree that the most interesting aspect of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is its odd choices of instrumentation that are played in an intriguing off-kilter way to give the album a sort of hazy, psychedelic… (read more)