i want to be clear: kim directs some of the best sonic youth tracks. the sprawl, for instance.

but, she's also responsible for some of the band's least interesting and most pretentious moments, and, left to her own devices, without any sort of a check, the pretension has really dominated the sound, since the band broke up.

there are some moments on the things she's done over the last ten years, but it's mostly been largely forgettable, imo. what she needs to be able to do, stylistically, is write killer one-liners to cut through the noise, and she's mostly not done that - it's been more of a cathartic process, for her, with the listener kind of just peering in on it.