Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy (2007)

As Sonic Youth's endlessly creative lead guitarist and grungey,
disaffected singer, Thurston Moore's alternative/indie
street-cred wouldn't show a scratch if his first proper solo
album in 12 years was an album of B*witched covers. Luckily,
Trees Outside The Academy doesn't take such chances, roping in J
Mascis for guitar help and then sounding entirely as you'd
expect it to sound â like Sonic Youth meets Dinosaur Jr,
but not as good as either at their best. To his great credit,
Moore can move from gently driving, taunting acoustic guitar
pieces, to lo-fi free-form piano, and again to raucous punk
posturing, without losing the thread. With guitars and violins
at times studied and serious like straight college rock, and at
others screeching and yelling like the most abrasive of tantrums
- Thurston Moore may be 49, but he'll always be a teenager at
heart.