Back in the mid-1990s, when Sonic Youth started performing a new song called “The Diamond Sea,” whoever wrote out their setlists would etch the phrase “new neil-esque” next to the title, presumably in reference to Neil Young . This new 20-minute epic was the band’s Crazy Horse moment, their idea of a rock anthem that starts with a tuneful, melancholy song and then proceeds to deconstruct it with loud report. The studio version, recorded down in Memphis between trips to Payne’s Bar-B-Q, opens with a guitar that sounds almost eerily humanoid in its yoiyoiyoiyoiyoiy tone. Then, Thurston Moore sets the scene with one of the band’s best lines: “Time takes its crazy toll.” (“Neil-esque,” indeed.) After three verse-chorus repetitions, the quartet stop the song cold and set off in a new direction, churning out pure noise even as drummer Steve Shelley keeps everyone anchored.…