Lee Ranaldo optimistic about Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo in a recent interview with Rolling Stone talked about the future of the band.

About the tour that just ended, and how Moore and Gordon breaking up affected it, he said: "There was a little bit of tiptoeing around and some different situations with the traveling – you know, they're not sharing a room anymore or anything like that. I would say in general the shows went really well. It kind of remains to be seen at this point what happens to the future. I think they are certainly the last shows for a while and I guess I'd just leave it at that".

And he added: "I'm feeling optimistic about the future no matter what happens at this point. I mean, every band runs its course. We've been together way longer than any of us ever imagined would happen and it's been for the most part an incredibly pleasurable ride. There's still a lot of stuff we're going to continue to do. There's tons and tons of archival projects and things like that that are still going on, so there are so many ways in which we are tied to each other for the future both musically and in other ways. I'm just happy right now to let the future take its course and I guess I'm kind of thankful that I've got this other project that kind of came about on its own. It wasn't kind of like, well, "Oh the band is ending for a while and I've got to figure out what to do." It kind of naturally happened in the course of things so that was a nice way for that to come about.  I played my first show the day after Kim and Thurston announced [their separation.] That was completely weird".