Released on 20 October 2014, "The Best Day" was the fourth solo studio album by American indie rock artist Thurston Moore, the album features a cool cover photo of Moore's mother Eleanor embracing a dog circa 1940s. The album spawned a single "Detonation".
Spanned a career across nearly 4 decades, Thurston Moore emerged with a merely good album, The Best Day is one of those records
that take us back to Moore's "Psychic Heart" and Sonic Youth "Washing Machine" albums, Moore is at his best employing his trademark melodic guitar work and definitely this album is filled of cool moments like that.
The album opener "Speak To The Wild" sets the tone with plucked guitar notes echo, then the main guitar and a powerful drumming courtesy by the great Steve Shelley and a beautiful bass line by My Bloody Valentine's Deb Googe, a truly long track nearly 9 minutes, and then it comes another long track "Forevermore" an eleven and a half track stunner on the same line as the opener but maybe not so gorgeous, another long track is "Tape" a six minutes track mood piece with a more acoustic driven that makes a nice transition, "The Best Day" kicks off the rock part of the album another usual standard by Moore full of acoustic and electric guitars, things raised again with "Detonation" a certain reminiscense of "Teenage Riot" by Sonic Youth surrounds the air, a fast and a thrilling guitar track that only Moore can play, "Grace Lake" similar as the first two tracks, but here's a more shimmering guitar tune that takes us back into a more reflective mood before the ending with "Germs Burn" in order to leave a positive feeling and a huge smile to listener.
A nice album, a essential one that should be amognst the top 5 album by Thurston Moore.
The Best Day Track List:
1. Speak To The Wild
2. Forevermore
3. Tape
4. The Best Day
5. Detonation
6. Vocabularies
7. Grace Lake
8. Germs Burn
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