Joined by new drummer Steve Shelley, Sonic Youth presented a spectacular leap forwards with EVOL, subtly adding smatterings of subversive pop structure to their foundation of noise-rock freak-outs and creepy-crawl poetics. The result is an avant-rock classic, ending with Sonic Youth’s most emblematic song “Expressway To Yr Skull”, a transcendental locked-groove cataclysm of carnage and delirium, nirvana in a sex-death continuum.