Thruston Moore speaks about possible new Sonic Youth record

Moore was speaking last night (May 31st) backstage at an intimate solo show at Union Chapel in Islington, London he said:

"We’ll just gather and see what happens. We made the decision to have a good solid year of not doing too much as a band. We really decided to put the brakes on the juggernaut that was the band. We’d pretty much reached this decision before the gig we played on New Year’s Eve [at Hammersmith Apollo with Factory Floor, Shellac and The Pop Group]. We just wanted to regenerate. I like doing shows like New Year’s Eve where we just play a catalogue of what we do but at the same time I feel [when we do this] that people have decoded us."

"It’s like they know what we’re about, like there isn’t a question mark hanging over the audience any more. Like they’ve figured it out and they appreciate it." He added: "That's totally fine and those gigs are totally fine but they’re also a bit business as usual and that kind of turns me off a little bit. So I wanted to back away from that for a while and do other work."

Thruston's 'other' work this year has been his new solo effort 'Demolished Thoughts' which was released last month through Ecstatic Peace/Matador and was produced by Beck Hanson. The new solo offering features American drummer Joey Waronker, most famous for his 4 year stint in R.E.M and work with the Smashing Pumpkins, violinist Samara Lubelski and harpist Mary Lattimore.