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but Lavigne's thorough collaboration with Kroeger keeps Avril Lavigne from being anything near respectable

Even seemingly buffering tracks like the Mondanile-penned instrumental "April's Song" (more in line with his solo compositions for Ducktails) and the Yo La Tengo/Galaxie 500-modeled "How Might I Live

Additional personnel: Kirk Canning (cello)

Steve Van Zandt (acoustic guitar

of relationships in flux ("Nothing Can Come Between Us") than of the heat of the moment: from the the coy duplicity of "Smooth Operator" to the positive reinforcement of "The Sweetest Taboo" and the sweet ambiguities of "Love Is Stronger Than Pride

Sonic Youth Murray Street rattlesnake but Lavigne's thorough collaboration withThis is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Sonic Youth: Thurston Moore (vocals, guitar, tack piano); Lee Ranaldo (vocals, guitar, Hammond B 3 organ, melodica); Kim Gordon (vocals, guitar, bass, dilruba); Jim O'Rourke (guitar, bass, electronics); Steve Shelley (accordion, drums, sarangi, percussion). Additional personnel: Donald Dietrich, James Sauter (saxophone). Recorded at Echo Canyon, New York,