The solo discography of Thurston Moore consists of 16 studio albums, seven extended plays, two live albums, one remix album, one remix EP, 27 singles (official and promotional), four film scores, six split albums, seven split singles, and seven original compilation appearances. In addition to his time as a member of various bands, most notably Sonic Youth, Moore has collaborated with an extensive number of artists, from fellow former members of Sonic Youth to musical artists such as Beck, Yoko Ono, and John Zorn. In 2017, an oral discography entitled Thurston Moore: We Sing a New language was published, cataloging his lesser-known solo and collaborative works up to that point.
Since Sonic Youth's dissolution in 2011, Moore's career has remained active, often releasing his solo material with a backing lineup of Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine) and James Sedwards. His most recent solo studio album, Flow Critical Lucidity, was released in 2024.
Solo Studio albums {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+ List of studio albums with relevant details ! scope=col rowspan=2 style="width:13em" | Album ! scope=col rowspan=2 | Release details ! scope=col colspan=9 | Peak chart positions ! scope=col rowspan=2 | |- style="width:3em;font-size:90%" ! scope=col | BEL(Fl) ! scope=col | BEL(Wa) ! scope=col | FRA ! scope=col | GER ! scope=col | NETH ! scope=col | NOR ! scope=col | SCOT ! scope=col | UK ! scope=col | UKIndie |- ! scope=row | Psychic Hearts | Released: May 9, 1995 Labels: DGC, Geffen | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | Piece for Yvonne Rainer | Released: 1996 Label: Destroy All Music | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | Please Just Leave Me (My Paul Desmond) | Released: 1996 Label: Pure | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | Black Weeds/White Death | Released: 2007 Label: Meudiademorte | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | Trees Outside the Academy | Released: September 18, 2007 Label: Ecstatic Peace! | 47 || — || 176 || — || — || 18 || — || — || 24
! scope=row | Built for Lovin''' | Released: 2008 Label: Lost Treasures of the Underworld | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | Sensitive/Lethal| Released: April 2008 Label: No Fun | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | 12 String Meditations for Jack Rose| Released: 2011 Label: Vin du Select Qualitite | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | Demolished Thoughts| Released: May 24, 2011 Label: Matador | 28 || 72 || — || — || — || 8 || — || 119 || 14
! scope=row | The Best Day| Released: October 20, 2014 Label: Matador | 27 || 55 || 123 || — || — || — || 92 || 78 || 16
! scope=row | Rock n Roll Consciousness| Released: April 28, 2017 Labels: Fiction, Caroline International | 23 || 52 || 167 || 66 || 151 || — || 39 || 65 || —
! scope=row | Spirit Counsel| Released: September 21, 2019 Label: The Daydream Library Series | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || 45
! scope=row | By the Fire| Released: September 25, 2020 Label: The Daydream Library Series | 86 || — || — || — || — || — || 49 || — || 10
! scope=row | Screen Time| Released: February 5, 2021 Label: Self-released | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | An Electric Noise Guitar Tribute to Peter Rehberg| Released: August 6, 2021 Label: Self-released | — || — || — || — || — || — || — || — || —
! scope=row | Flow Critical Lucidity| Released: September 20, 2024 Label: The Daydream Library Series | — || — || — || — || — || — || 46 || — || 12
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Extended plays + List of extended plays with relevant details EP Release details Flipped Out Bride Released: 2006 Label: Blossoming Noise Free / Love Released: 2007 Label: Throne Heap Blindfold Released: 2008 Label: Destructive Industries Suicide Notes for Acoustic Guitar Released: 2010 Label: Carbon Voice Studies 05 Released: 2011 Label: My Dance the Skull Sun Gift Earth Released: November 14, 2014 Label: Blank Editions Offerings Released: 2016 Label: not on label
Live albums + List of live albums with relevant details Album Release details Peak chartpositions UKIndie Sonic Street Chicago Released: 2014 Label: Corbet Vs. Dempsey — Spirit Counsel Released: September 21, 2019 Label: The Daydream Library Series 45
Demo albums Guitar Explorations of Cloud Formations (February 6, 2026, self-released)
Remix albums Root (1998, Lo)
Remix EPs Kapotte Music by Thurston Moore (2004, minimax CD, Korm Plastics)
Singles + List of official and promotional singles with relevant details Year Title Peak chartpositions Album UK Phys. 1994 "Starfield Wild" b/w "Earth/Amp" — Non-album single 1995 "Cindy (Rotten Tanx)" — Psychic Hearts "Ono Soul" — 2011 "Benediction" — Demolished Thoughts 2014 "Detonation" b/w "Germs Burn"— The Best Day "Heavenmetal" — Chelsea Light Moving "Speak to the Wild" — The Best Day 2016 "Chelsea's Kiss" — Non-album single 2017 "Cease Fire" — Rock n Roll Consciousness "Smoke of Dreams" — Rock n Roll Consciousness 2018 "Mx Liberty" 15 Rock n Roll Consciousness 2019 "Pollination" b/w 12 Non-album singles "Spring Swells" b/w 16 "Three Graces: Alice Moki Jayne" b/w 13 2020 "May Daze" — "Hashish" 4 By the Fire "Another Day" — Non-album single "Siren" — By the Fire 2021 "Sketch of Light" — Non-album single 2023 "Hypnogram" — Flow Critical Lucidity "Isadora" — Flow Critical Lucidity 2024 "Rewilding" — Flow Critical Lucidity "San Limites" — "New in Town" — "The Diver" — 2025 "The Serpentine" — Non-album singles "Temptation Inside Your Heart" —
Film scores
Heavy (1995) Extra Action (and Extra Hardcore) (March 18, 2008) Street (2011) Extra Shot (2013)
Split albums Thurston Moore / Golden Calves Century Band / Dr. Gretchen Musical Weightlifting Program (1999, Polyamory) From the Earth to the Spheres Vol. 1 (2004, Opax) Thurston Moore / Cotton Museum (2007, 500 copies, Tasty Soil) Mature, Lonely + Out of Control / Alternative Hair Styles (2008, Nihilist) Kommissar Hjuler und Mama Baer / Thurston Moore (2009, Goaty Tapes) Untitled (2009, Insult)
Split singles "Just Tell Her That I Really Like Her" (1995, Road Cone) "Jong" / "New Wave Dust" (2004, Troniks) "Female Body Inspector / "Monster Tape" (2006, Deathbomb Arc) "12 String Acoustik Regret", "12 String Acoustik Suicide Pact with God" / "Of Death" (2010, Wintage Records & Tapes) "Boogie X", "Hot Date", "Boogie Y" / "Gold Dime" (2011, Fast Weapons) "Gleo" (2013, triple single, Joyful Noise) "Velvet Hell" (2022, Summer Interlude)
Compilation appearances Just Another Asshole – "Fucking Youth of Today" (1981, not on label) Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen – "Shit You Hear at Parties" (1994, Little Brother) Heavy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – "Victor and Callie", "Undertow", "Kissing on the Bridge", "Spinning Goodbye", and "Culinary Institute" (1996, TVT) Moonlanding Vol. 1–2 – "Mouse" (2000, Helicopter) 45′18″ – 4′33″ (2002, Korm Plastics) Thrash Sabbatical – "Unzipped", "Petite Bone", and "Creamsikkle" (2007, Deathbomb Arc) Oh Michael Look What You've Done: Friends Play Michael Chapman – "It Didn't Work Out" (2014, Tompkins Square)
Collaborations
The collaborative discography of Thurston Moore consists of 23 studio albums, two extended plays, 33 live albums, two live EPs, 5 singles (official and promotional), one split EP, two split singles, and three original compilation appearances.
Studio albums + List of collaborative albums Album Release details Barefoot in the Head Label: Forced Exposure Shamballa: Duets with Thurston Moore and Elliott Sharp Released: 1994 Label: Knitting Factory Works Legend of the Blood Yeti Released: 1997 Label: Infinite Chug MMMR Released: 1997 Labels: Numero Zero, Xeric Pillow Wand Released: 1997 Label: Little Brother The Promise Released: 1999 Label: Materiali Sonori New York – Ystad Released: 2000 Label: Olof Bright TM/MF Released: 2000 Label: Freewaysound Make No Mistake About It Released: 2004 Label: Gold Soundz The Roadhouse Session Vol. 1 Label: Columbia Music Entertainment Untitled Released: 2007 Label: Ecstatic Peace! Live Released: 2008 Label: Maim & Disfigure Les Anges Du Péché Released: 2011 Label: Dysmusie Yokokimthurston Released: September 25, 2012 Label: Chimera Music @ Released: 2013 Label: Tzadik Comes Through in the Call Hold Released: 2013 Label: Fast Speaking Music Oasis at Biskra Released: 2014 Label: Fast Speaking Music Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper Released: March 24, 2015 Label: RareNoise Tiny People Having a Meeting Released: 2015 Label: Fast Speaking Music Disarm Released: 2017 Label: Endless Happiness Improvisations Released: December 8, 2017 Label: Care in the Community Dunia Released: 2018 Label: Astral Spirits They Came Like Swallows – Seven Requiems for the Children of Gaza Released: May 1, 2026 Label: Silver Current
Extended plays The Crumb (1988, Widowspeak) 3 New Songs (February 1992, Overground)
Live albums + List of live collaborative albums Album Release details Klangfarbenmelodie.. and the Colorist Strikes Primitiv Released: 1995 Label: Corpus Hermeticum Piece for Jetsun Dolma Released: 1996 Label: Les Disques Victo In Store Released: 1997 Label: Father Yod Songs We Taught the Lord Vol. 2 Released: 1997 Label: Hot Cars Warp Hurricane Floyd Released: 1999 Label: Sublingual Fuck Shit Up Released: 2000 Label: Les Disques Victo Kill Any / All Spin Personnel Released: 2000 Label: Freedom From Lost to the City / Noise to Nowhere Released: 2000 Label: Intakt Live at Easthampton Town Hall Released: 2001 Label: JMZ Opus: Three Incredible Ideas Released: 2001 Label: Auditorium Edizioni Live at Tonic Released: 2003 Label: Leo D.D.T. Released: 2006 Label: Tuskie Skull Kumpiny Night Released: 2007 Label: not on label Four Guitars Live Label: Important Keffer Gordon Moore Released: 2008 Label: Ecstatic Peace! Senso Released: September 22, 2009 Label: Ecstatic Peace! Mother/Groundhog Released: 2010 Labels: Ecstatic Peace!, Open Mouth Play Some Fucking Stooges Released: 2012 Label: Quasi Pop Last Notes Released: 2013 Label: Open Mouth The Only Way to Go Is Straight Through Released: 2013 Label: Northern Spy Vi Är Alla Guds Slavar Released: 2013 Label: Otoroku Live at ZDB Released: 2014 Label: Shhpuma The Rust Within Their Throats Released: 2014 Label: Headlights Soft Machine Sutra Released: 2014 Label: Fast Speaking Music The Thing with Thurston Moore Live Released: December 9, 2014 Label: The Thing Live at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Released: 2015 Label: Prisma Live at White Cube Released: 2015 Label: The Vinyl Factory Songs We Taught the Lord Vol. 1 Label: not on label Untitled Released: 2015 Label: Chocolate Monk Marshmallow Moon Decorum Released: 2016 Label: Corbett Vs. Dempsey Cuts Up, Cuts Out Released: April 21, 2018 (RSD) Label: RareNoise Live at The Stone Released: 2023 Label: Daksina Iguana Released: 2026 ( 2024) Label: Ideal
Live EPs Not Me (1996, Fourth Dimension) Live at Cafe Oto (2013, Otoroku)
Singles "Electricity Vs. Insects" (1996, Chocolate Monk) "G. Neurus", "Super Tuscan – Deisonic Rmx: Solo un Minuto" / "Super Tuscan" (1999, Loud!/Sin Organisation) "Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr." (2003, CD single, Breathmint) "Early in the Morning" (June 5, 2012, Chimera Music) "Feel It in Your Guts" (2016, Joyful Noise)
Split EPs The Voloptulist – "Corion Sound for TNB" / "840 Seconds Over" (2007, Hospital Productions)
Split singles "Telstar" / "Sputnik" (May 1997, Via Satellite) "Western Mass Hardcore Rules OK" / Untitled (2008, Not Not Fun)
Compilation appearances Kerouac: Kicks Joy Darkness – "The Last Hotel" (1997, Rykodisc) Black Box – box set including the album New York – Ystad (2000, Olof Bright)