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Thurston Moore: Rock ‘n’ Roll Consciousness (Caroline International)

As guitarist and founder member of the seminal Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore helped to define alternative rock music for a generation (or two) of music lovers from 1981 to 2011, around the same time as the break-up of his marriage to bandmate Kim Gordon.

Since then, Moore has continued to plough his own musical furrow and this five-track, 43-minute album sees him keeping ...