THURSTON MOORE

With Kurt Vile and the Violators, Hush Arbors

When: Thursday, July 21, 9 p.m.

Where: Rickshaw Theatre, 254 E. Hastings

Tickets: $25 plus service charges at Red Cat, Scratch, Highlife and TicketWeb.ca

VANCOUVER — Thurston Moore doesn’t really know how to handle Odd Future.

In a recent phone interview from Chicago, where Moore was scheduled to play the Pitchfork Festival, the controversial teen rap group was to take the stage amid roars of protest, the legendary Sonic Youth frontman couldn’t help but share some of his thoughts about an act he admitted his 17-year-old daughter Coco is a fan of.

“I like teenage hip-hop filth,” he said with a laugh, conceding he had to leave the festival before Odd Future’s performance.

The group has recently come under severe criticism for its violent, misogynistic rape and murder fantasy raps.

“This shit really has a nasty edge to it,” Moore said. “You know when you’re 17 and you’re hanging out with your friends and you’re all dudes and talking about shit and it’s really rough: It’s a way to show off you’re more f---ed up than the next guy. That was sort of a secret world.

“So for these guys to be coming out and doing it on stage and go, ‘Yeah, this is how we really talk but we don’t really mean it.’ It’s all fine and good but at the same time I don’t know, I’d like to keep it on the down-low where it’s always been.”

Moore, 52, is no stranger to counter-culture.

For over three decades, he has helped shape and define an entire movement of underground noise and punk rock, Sonic Youth being at the forefront of it all.

With his latest solo album Demolished Thoughts, however, Moore is taking on an entirely different approach.

Produced by Beck, Demolished Thoughts is less about indie rock deconstruction, tonal experimentation and geek-chic cultural referencing and more about heart-on-sleeve songwriting, something that will likely throw off a few Moore/Youth fans.

“I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do with a lot of the songs,” Moore said. “To me, it wasn’t much different than the way I work in poetry circles and doing small press poetry books where you express very personal ideas. And I did some of that with the lyrics [on Demolished Thoughts].

“With a band like Sonic Youth, I try to depersonalize the lyrics to some degree because it is a group effort and I don’t want it to be so pointed and personal. I tend to pull away or modify things and I re-configure the language I’m using and sometimes things will get a little more coded. I was originally going to release [Demolished Thoughts] as a book with a recording inside. But when I ran into Beck last summer, he convinced me into investigating his home recording situation [in L.A.]. And I thought, ‘Okay, this is really interesting. Maybe I’ll just throw everything in Beck’s house and see what comes out of it.’ ”