In his 1995 song “Ono Soul,” Thurston Moore urged his parishioners to “bow down to the queen of noise.” Fourteen years later, the legendary yet long decried avant-garde stalwart is still going strong, with an album as awesome and unapologetic as anything in her storied catalogue.
While Japanese electronic artist Cornelius, Cibo Matto’s Yuka Honda and her son Sean Lennon provide some choice instrumental backdrops, it’s Ono’s bleating voice that takes centre stage as she lets loose like the uninhibited elder relative of Ponytail’s Molly Siegel. Listening to standouts like the swelling title track and dance floor-ready “The Sun is Down,” it might be boggling to learn that she turned 76 in February.
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