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"They have not done the hardest work of making a critical engagement with reality. At a time of the worst economic conditions for the population since the Great Depression, when the US government is prosecuting colonial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and threatening to expand its war drive throughout the region, not a whiff of this finds its way into Sonic Youth’s music."
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Assuming we can call feminism politics, they've definitely written quite a lot on that topic. That the author seems to think writing songs focusing on feminist issues is any less a political act than writing ones condemning 'colonial wars' says more about him than it does the band. 'Flower' is one of the most brilliant and powerful political records ever made.