Stoner Sonic Youth unflinchingly tells the story of

unflinchingly tells the story of the band that wrote the rulebook for on-the-road excess – and eventually paid the price for it

Originally recorded for the Bobbin label and leased to King

to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life

Zen monk Ryokan’s 16th century musings on life that touch upon his experience of wandering through Japan with are relayed through gentle humour

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