Sister (Sonic Youth album)

Sister
Original uncensored LP cover
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1, 1987
RecordedMarch–April 1987
StudioSear Sound, Manhattan
Genre
Length37:32
LabelSST
ProducerSonic Youth
Sonic Youth chronology
EVOL
(1986)
Sister
(1987)
Master=Dik
(1987)
Sonic Youth studio album chronology
EVOL
(1986)
Sister
(1987)
The Whitey Album
(1988)

Sister is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth, released on SST Records on June 1. 1987. The album continued the band's move away from the no wave movement towards more traditional alternative rock song structures, while maintaining an experimental approach.

Like Sonic Youth's previous albums, Sister was not commercially successful at the time of its release. In the years since, however, it has received critical acclaim, with several publications naming it as one of the best albums of the 1980s.