Silver Session for Jason Knuth

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Silver Session for Jason Knuth is a 1998 EP by Sonic Youth. Its eight tracks consist entirely of guitar feedback with occasional drum machine. Jason Knuth — of the album's title — was a Sonic Youth fan who committed suicide, and proceeds from the record's sales were donated to San Francisco Suicide Prevention Hotline. An explanation of the record is found in the liner notes:

"Silver Sessions were taken from an evening when SY had to do vocal overdubs for 'A Thousand Leaves' -- the band upstairs was hammering out some funky metal overdrive and we couldn't "sing" properly (?!) -- we decided to fight fire with molten lava and turned every amp we owned on to 10+ and leaned as many guitars and basses we could plug in against them and they roared/HOWLED like airplanes burning over the pacific -- we could only enter the playing room with hands pressed hard against our ears and even then it was physically stunning -- we ran a sick outmoded beatbox through the P.A. and it blew out horrendous distorted pulsations. Of course we recorded the whole thing and a few months later we mixed it down into sections, ultra-processing it to a wholly other "piece" -- in a way, it's my favorite record of ours -- I hope Jason [Knuth, to whom the release is dedicated] digs it --- keep on keep on keep on --- thurston/sonic youth/nyc 1998."

Track listing

1. "Silver Panties" – 4:27
2. "Silver Breeze" – 1:19
3. "Silver Flower" – 4:48
4. "Silver Wax Lips" – 4:20
5. "Silver Loop" – 4:25
6. "Silver Shirt" – 7:17
7. "Silver Son" – 1:43
8. "Silver Mirror" – 2:44