The Eternal

Release date: 9 Jun 2009
Running length: 12 tracks
Running time: 56:31

Tracklist

	Track	Duration	Listeners
1	Sacred Trickster	2:11	91,272
2	Anti-Orgasm	6:07	69,449
3	Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)	3:32	56,287
4	Antenna	6:14	63,275
5	What We Know	3:54	58,966
6	Calming the Snake	3:36	54,688
7	Poison Arrow	3:43	51,470
8	Malibu Gas Station	5:39	51,857
9	Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn	2:39	46,784
10	No Way	3:52	48,335
11	Walkin Blue	5:21	45,853
12	Massage the History	9:43	43,955

About this album

“The Eternal” is the sixteenth studio album by Sonic Youth, released by Matador Records on June 9, 2009, their first on that label. It was their first studio album in three years (since “Rather Ripped”), making it the band’s longest delay between studio albums. The album peaked at #18 on the Billboard 200 and was the band’s highest charting album of their career in the United States and highest charting album since 1994’s “Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star”, which reached #34. The album was released digitally, on CD, and as a double LP, in both a standard and a “Buy Early Get Now” (BEGN) edition.