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EVOL
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| EVOL | ||
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| Studio album by Sonic Youth | ||
| Released | 1986 | |
| Recorded | March 1986 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 39:09 | |
| Label | SST Records | |
| Producer(s) | Sonic Youth w/ Martin Bisi | |
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| Sonic Youth chronology | ||
 Bad Moon Rising (1985) |
 EVOL (1986) |
 Sister (1987) |
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EVOL is a Sonic Youth album, released in 1986. The album cover features a picture of Lung Leg, a still taken from Submit To Me, a film by Richard Kern.
The album is notable for showing signs of the band's transition away from their noise-rock past and towards a greater rock sensibility.
It was the first album by the band released on the SST label. By 1986, label founder Greg Ginn was anxious for SST to move away from its American hardcore roots, and signing Sonic Youth--releasing EVOL--was an undeniably important step for the label, as well as for the band.
The record marks the second straight for the band in which it had worked with New York singer/performance artist Lydia Lunch. Lunch had shared vocal duties on Bad Moon Rising's "Death Valley '69" and on this record she co-wrote the tune "Marilyn Moore," which may or may not be about the second woman to survive an attack by the Yorkshire Ripper.
On the vinyl format of the album, the time length for "Expressway to Yr. Skull" was indicated by the symbol for infinity; the final moment of the song featured a locked groove, making it theoretically endless.
The CD format added a bonus track: the band's raucous but surprisingly faithful take on the Kim Fowley tune "Bubblegum," which Kim Gordon kicks off by shouting "hit it, girls." This is in reference to the song's original performers, The Runaways.
All tracks by Sonic Youth except as noted.
- "Tom Violence" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 3:05
- "Shadow of a Doubt" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 3:32
- "Star Power" (lyrics Thurston, vocals Kim) – 4:48
- "In the Kingdom #19" (lyrics/vocals Lee) – 3:24
- "Green Light" (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 3:46
- "Death to Our Friends" – 3:16
- "Secret Girl" (lyrics/vocals Kim) – 2:54
- "Marilyn Moore" (lyrics Lydia Lunch and Thurston, vocals Thurston – 4:04
- "Expressway to Yr. Skull" (aka The Crucifixion of Sean Penn/Madonna, Sean and Me) (lyrics/vocals Thurston) – 7:19
- "Bubblegum" (lyrics Kim Fowley,vocals Kim) – 2:49