With any artist’s music, the object should be to move something within the listener - if it does that, it’s a unique piece of work, like “Murray Street” by Sonic Youth, the group’s newest album that grooves on almost every song.

This rock group began in the early 1980s and is still hot. They’ve released 16 albums, and are leaders in indie rock.

Even without knowing the group’s background, the album grabs all your senses from the beginning. Sure, it’s rock with heavy guitar and bass, but the music of band members Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley and collaborator Jim O’Rourke blend together well.

The first track, “The Empty Page,” is about performing any where, any place. It urges people to start life over on an empty page.

Then there’s “Disconnection Notice,” which asks, “Did you get your disconnection notice?” The track has funky sounds of guitar and bass vibing from each other. I know this an old concept, but it’s groovy music with strong guitar riffs toward the end that provide a good flow.

Very few of its songs have a vast amount of vocals, but there’s just enough so the music can embrace you. The blueprint for “Murray Street” is solid because it presents all aspects of the group well.

On the track “Karen Revisited,” there are more mellow grooves to please the senses, “It’s been a long long time/Ancient history some would say, another state of mind.”

The vocals are performed by Moore, Ranaldo and Gordon. Each member’s vocals are solid and pleasurable to the ear, and with a vast range of different music behind each of them, the songs keep flowing creatively.

Heavy drums battle for attention on this album, but it’s not too noisy like other rock bands, drowning out the vocal vibe.

“Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style” has a bouncy feeling while rocking with heavy guitar - building the song with energy. It has an outer-space theme relating human qualities to creatures from other places.

“Plastic Sun” is a song about being tired of fake people in your life. It lets off a little bit of frustrated energy and ends suddenly.

Ending the album is “Sympathy for the Strawberry,” a track with a passionate tone and more mellow guitar.

The good thing about this album is that it’s short and entertaining. Tripping out on almost every song, Sonic Youth produces solid music on “Murray Street” with intimate messages for listeners to hang on to.