High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Eternal is the sixteenth studio album by Sonic Youth, released by Matador Records on June 9, 2009, their first on that label. It is their first studio album in three years (since Rather Ripped), making it the band`s longest delay between studio albums. The album peaked at #18 on the Billboard 200 making it the band`s highest charting album of their career in the United States and highest charting album since 1994`s Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, which reached #34. The album was released digitally, on CD, and as a double LP, in both a standard and a "Buy Early Get Now" (BEGN) edition.