Sonic Nurse is the 13th album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, released on June 7, 2004. The cover art was made by renowned artist Richard Prince

Richard Prince

Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. Prince began appropriating photographs in 1975...

 from his Nurse Paintings series. Furthermore, one of Prince's photographic creations in this series is entitled "Dude Ranch Nurse" which is also the name of a song on this record.

"Pattern Recognition" is based on the 2003 William Gibson novel of the same name

Pattern Recognition (novel)

Pattern Recognition is a novel by science fiction writer William Gibson published in 2003. Set in August and September 2002, the story follows Cayce Pollard, a 32-year-old marketing consultant who has a psychological sensitivity to corporate symbols...

. They have used Gibson's work as influence before, notably on a few tracks from Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation

Daydream Nation is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in October 1988 by Enigma Records in the United States, and by Blast First in the United Kingdom....

.

"Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" was previously released as "Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" on the first Narnack

Narnack Records

Narnack Records is an independent record label founded in 2002. The label developed in NYC & Brooklyn’s underground music scene, quickly becoming known for its ability for developing new artists, but also working with established bands like The Fall and The Slits...

 Buddy Series 7".

Track listing

Bonus tracks

• Both tracks are also available on The Destroyed Room: B-Sides and Rarities
  The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities
  The Destroyed Room: B-sides and Rarities is a compilation album by Sonic Youth. This album contains tracks previously only available on vinyl, limited-release compilations, imports, and b-sides to international singles. The tracks were hand picked by the band, which also includes unreleased...
  
  

Album charts

Year	Album	Chart	Position
2004	Sonic Nurse	Norwegian Albums Chart	21
		Belgium Albums Chart	23
		French Albums Chart	41
		Italian Albums Chart	50
		Irish Albums Chart	53
		US Billboard Top 200	64
		German Albums Chart	89

Personnel

• Kim Gordon
  Kim Gordon
  Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, artist, record producer, video director and actress. She has sung and played bass and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth, and in Free Kitten with Julia Cafritz...
  
   (Vocals, guitar, bass)
• Thurston Moore
  Thurston Moore
  Thurston Joseph Moore is an American musician best known as a singer, songwriter and guitarist of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside of Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label...
  
   (Vocals, guitar)
• Lee Ranaldo
  Lee Ranaldo
  Lee M. Ranaldo is an American singer, guitarist, writer, record producer, and visual artist, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth...
  
   (Guitar, vocals)
• Steve Shelley
  Steve Shelley
  Steven Jay Shelley is an American drummer, best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.-Biography:...
  
   (Drums)
• Jim O'Rourke
  Jim O'Rourke (musician)
  Jim O'Rourke is an Irish-American musician and record producer. He was long associated with the Chicago experimental and improv scene...
  
  (Guitar, bass)