Sonic Youth's summer instrumental EP, Perspectives Musicales is, at first glance, a full-blown tribute to the 20th century French avant

guard. From the EP's title, to the exquisitely, tottering pretentious song titles -- "Anagrama," "Improvisation Ajoutee," "Tremens," and " Mieux: De

Corrosion." The connections don't stop there, the vinyl is Coke can red, adding a whiff of both socialism and aesthetics...