EVOL (Sonic Youth album)

This article is about the 1986 album by Sonic Youth. For the 2016 album by American rapper Future, see Evol (Future album). For other uses, see Evol (disambiguation).
EVOL
Studio album by
Sonic Youth
ReleasedMay 1986
RecordedMarch 1986
StudioBC Studio, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genre
Length36:08
LabelSST (059)
Producer
Sonic Youth chronology
Bad Moon Rising
(1985) 		EVOL
(1986) 		Sister
(1987)
Singles from EVOL
  1. "Starpower"
    Released: July 1986

EVOL is the third full-length studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. Released in May 1986, EVOL was Sonic Youth’s first album on SST Records, and also the first album to feature then-new drummer Steve Shelley who had just replaced Bob Bert.

In retrospective reviews, critics cite EVOL as marking Sonic Youth’s transition from their no wave roots toward a greater pop sensibility, while bassist Kim Gordon has referred to it as the band’s “goth record.” Pitchfork has praised the album, saying that EVOL "[was] where the seeds of greatness were sown", and placed the album 31st on their Top 100 Albums of the 1980s list, alongside Sonic Youth's next two albums, Sister and Daydream Nation, which ranked 14th and first, respectively.[1]

  1. ^ "Staff Lists: Top 100 Albums of the 1980s". Pitchfork. November 20, 2002. Archived from the original on August 15, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2012.