2009 release from the Alt-Rock veterans. Silver Sessions was taken from an evening when Sonic Youth had to do vocal overdubs for A Thousand Leaves--a band upstairs was hammering out some funky Metal overdrive and they couldn"t "sing" properly. Sonic Youth decided to fight fire with molten lava and turned every amp they owned on to 10+ and leaned as many guitars and basses they could plug in against them and they roared and howled like airplanes burning over the Pacific--they could only enter the playing room with hands pressed hard against our ears and even then it was physically stunning. They ran a sick outmoded beatbox through the P.A. and it blew out horrendous distorted pulsations. Of course, they recorded the whole thing and a few months later mixed it down into sections, ultra-processing it to a wholly other "piece."