By the Fire
By the Fire is the seventh solo album by Thurston Moore. Moore claimed the album and its release were a political act saying "I put out "By the Fire" as a political move. Any time you put out a record, a book, a fanzine, a blog, a cassette, a CD, whatever you're doing, that's a political move. You're actually engaging in a social world. I called it "By the Fire" because of that. [It's] the idea of people sitting around a fire and dialoguing." Reception. Ron Hart of "Spin" called the album "his  most direct solo outing since his 1995 debut, "Psychic Hearts"." Stuart Berman of "Pitchfork" praised the album and said of the almost 90 minutes length of the album "it's a record that justifies and even demands the extra space to explore." Daniel Sylvester of "Exclaim!" was less effusive calling the album "boring and tedious" and said of it "much of the material sounds like Sonic Youth, even if the quality isn't there."