Trees Outside the Academy is an alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 album by American musician 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...

 of 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...

. It was released on 18 September 2007 and was Moore's first solo album since 1995's Psychic Hearts

Psychic Hearts

Psychic Hearts is a solo album by Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. The album was released in 1995 through Geffen Records. The album has been remastered "for goodness" and reissued in 2006...

. It was released on Moore's own label, Ecstatic Peace

Ecstatic Peace

Ecstatic Peace! is a record label based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, founded in 1981 by Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. The premiere release was a split cassette featuring spoken word performances from Michael Gira of Swans and Lydia Lunch...

. It was recorded with Sonic Youth's drummer Steve Shelley

Steve Shelley

Steven Jay Shelley is an American drummer, best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.-Biography:...

 and violinist Samara Lubelski.

The recording took place at Dinosaur Jr

Dinosaur Jr

Dinosaur Jr. is an American alternative rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1984. Originally called Dinosaur, prior to legal issues that forced the group to change their name, the band disbanded in 1997 until reuniting in 2005...

 guitarist J. Mascis' home studio. Mascis also contributed lead guitar for some tracks. It features the track "Thurston @ 13" which is, "Some weird cassette tape that Thurston found at his mom's of him at 13 years old in the early '70s performing some kind of odd sound-theatre."

The album debuted at #6 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, barely missing the Billboard 200.

Track listing

All tracks by 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...

.

1. "Frozen Gtr." - 4:07
2. "The Shape Is in a Trance" - 4:41
3. "Honest James" - 3:52
4. "Silver>Blue" - 5:52
5. "Fri/End" - 3:33
6. "American Coffin" - 3:58
7. "Wonderful Witches + Language Meanies" - 2:26
8. "Off Work" - 4:14
9. "Never Day" - 4:03
10. "Free Noise Among Friends" - 0:36
11. "Trees Outside the Academy" - 6:07
12. "Thurston@13" - 2:38

Personnel

• 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...
  
   - acoustic & electric guitars, bass, vocals, piano on track 6
• Steve Shelley
  Steve Shelley
  Steven Jay Shelley is an American drummer, best known as the drummer of alternative rock band Sonic Youth.-Biography:...
  
   - drums on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 11
• Samara Lubelski - violin on tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9 & 11
• J Mascis
  J Mascis
  J Mascis is an American musician, best known as the singer, guitarist and songwriter for Dinosaur Jr.. In 2011, he was ranked in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.- Biography :...
  
   - lead guitar on tracks 1, 2, 7 & 11
• Gown - electric guitar on track 1 & 9
• John Moloney - drums on track 7
• Christina Carter - vocals on tracks 1 & 3
• Leslie Keffer - noise on track 8

External links

• Thurston Moore to Drop 'Trees Outside the Academy' Spin
  Spin (magazine)
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• Youth gone solo: Thurston readies Mascis-tastic solo LP Drowned in Sound
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