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Noon and Eternity

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Noon and Eternity
Studio album by
Released2006
Recorded2006
StudioSonic Youth's studio, New York City
Genre
Length1:06:24
LabelMenlo Park Recordings
Producer
To Live and Shave in L.A. chronology
Horóscopo: Sanatorio de Molière
(2006)
Noon and Eternity
(2006)
Les Tricoteuses
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Pitchfork8.0/10[2]
Tiny Mix Tapes[4]
Verbicideextremely negative[5]

Noon and Eternity is a studio album by experimental rock collective To Live and Shave in L.A. The album features production by Andrew W.K.

Background

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Group leader Tom Smith commented on the making of the album: "We tracked the album in 2004 at Sonic Youth's studio in New York. Andrew WK played electronic drums. Thurston played guitar. Rat and Don Fleming played. Ben was there. I had to write the material in two days. My son came back from Iraq... He's fairly left leaning but he wanted a Hemingway adventure. I have a lot of love for my son, so a lot of those songs stemmed from revulsion to the Bush war machine. But tying something to a political moment can be suicidal for an artwork's longevity. So rather than making those political connotations overt, I made them universal. I made it about the love of my son, who had been changed by his experience."[1]

Track listing

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  1. "This Home and Fear" – 24:25
  2. "Early 1880s" – 19:23
  3. "Percent Obstruct Street" – 13:09
  4. "Mothers over Silverpoint" – 9:32

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Quietus | Features | Strange World Of... | The Strange World Of... Tom Smith/ To Live And Shave In LA". The Quietus.
  2. ^ a b "To Live and Shave in L.A.: Noon & Eternity". Pitchfork.
  3. ^ a b Mason, Stewart. "To Live and Shave in L.A. – Noon and Eternity". AllMusic.
  4. ^ "Music Review: To Live And Shave In L.A. - Noon and Eternity". Tiny Mix Tapes.
  5. ^ verbicide