Most songs follow a gay parade character and their central issue – the silly xylophone and synth stories meet childlike whimsy with melancholic darkness.
Released in May 1986 on SST Records and Blast First! In the UK, EVOL was the third studio album by Sonic Youth and showed the first signs of the band transforming their No Wave past into a greater alt-rock sensibility.
Patience is an album fascinated with the physical experience of the body, it's songs tracking the movements of mouths and hands and racing hearts, skin and spit and teeth and blood.