In fact, the only thing even slightly different in the case of this year's The Eternal is that it comes three years after its last album instead of the standard two years, and that Sonic Youth spent much of the time in between playing 1988's Daydream Nation on the festival circuit. For more than a decade, that cycle has consisted of releasing a new album every other May or June, and touring all summer while the members' kids are out of school, with a set list that inevitably consists of mostly new songs and a few golden oldies, rarely changing much from night to night. The ultimate irony of Sonic Youth's continued existence after nearly 30 years is not that the band dared to grow old, but that such an original and experimental band is the definition of a well-oiled machine, with a touring routine form which it rarely deviates.
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