Sonic Youth share live 1989 album recorded in Kyiv to support Ukraine

Live In Kyiv, Ukraine 1989 appeared on Sonic Youth's Bandcamp yesterday (14 April), and as the title suggests, the album is a recording of Sonic Youth's 1989 performance in Kyiv, featuring songs such as "Candle", "Kissability", "Silver Rocket" and more.

Proceeds from sales of the album will be donated to the World Central Kitchen, which is helping provide food and hot meals to those in liberated Ukrainian cities.

The album description reads: "Riding on the wave of the critical success of Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth's first foray into the former USSR came in April of 1989 with shows in Vilnius, Leningrad, Moscow and Kyiv, the first opportunity for Lithuanians, Russians, and Ukrainians respectively to get a realtime gander at the fabled NYC underground in the flesh (with Bon Jovi lagging four months behind to rep NJ for the hordes). Anarchic, locked, and loaded with fresh jams from Daydream and vintage chestnut "Brother James", SY blister here into a rabid pack of ready-for-action Ukrainians only blessed previously with the likes of Nick Cave and Neubauten drifting into their territory. Though the post-Iron Curtain sojourn was cut short prematurely (like this recording!) after this gig, the Sonics left an indelible impression of the true sounds of freedom with attendees that included Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hutz who was forever changed in its wake. This revisiting of the April 14 set honors that nation's spirit and proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen wck.org, and timestamps a moment where new ears got transported for a first time."