A little bit of fame sure can get you a long way. As guitarist and frontman of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore thundered his way into the hearts of a generation of music fans in the 1980s and 1990s and, no doubt, the band performed an important role – smuggling dissonance, improvisation and avant-garde procedures into indie rock, and opening up a lot of young minds in the process. In recent years, Moore has increasingly concentrated on improvisation – and his high profile has ensured that he's collaborated with an impressive list of free jazz and improv heavyweights. Yet, you have to wonder whether he’d have been invited to the top table with such enthusiasm if he weren’t already so well known. To put it plainly, as an improvising guitarist he remains decidedly average.

This collaboration with talented Chicagoan drummer Frank Rosaly is a case in point: a half-hour live set in which Moore wastes little time lumbering into dive-bombing feedback and distorted roar leaving him nowhere to go but louder, harder, rougher until the ear-shattering conclusion. Rosaly gamely attempts to add colour, but is left very little room in which to operate. Please, how about Thurston less for a change?