MY LIFE IN MUSIC
Ryley Walker
The Course In Fable creator reveals his headiest inspirations: “I wish I had a glass of that on me at all times”
INTERVIEW: SAM RICHARDS
SONIC YOUTH
Murray Street DGC, 2002
I was 13 years old when this came out. I’d heard about Sonic Youth through skateboarding videos and maybe friends’ older siblings. I think they liked the ‘fuck the world’ Sonic Youth, but this was super-hippy, really pretty Sonic Youth; it’s not so damaging and noisy like the earlier stuff, and I fell in love with it. Murray Street got me into playing guitar outside of a Led Zeppelin context. I remember trying to play along to it and it didn’t make any sense, so I had to investigate further – it was cool to learn you could manipulate the guitar and make it your own thing. Sonic Youth had keys to the underground and they opened up a whole ’nother door for me.