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Artist | Yo La Tengo
Title | Stuff Like That There
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 45:41
Label | Matador Records Store | 2015
Catalog | OLE-1079-2 Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 213 kbps Size | 73.60 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. My Heart's Not In It 2:48
02. Rickety 3:46
03. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 2:51
04. All Your Secrets 3:18
05. The Ballad Of Red Buckets 4:49
06. Friday I'm In Love 3:11
07. Before We Stopped To Think 2:59
08. Butchie's Tune 2:46
09. Automatic Doom 2:37
10. Awhileaway 4:03
11. I Can Feel The Ice Melting 2:35
12. Naples 2:44
13. Deeper Into Movies 5:09
14. Somebody's In Love 2:05
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Yo La Tengo are in many respects the quintessential critics' band: in
addition to their adventurous eclecticism, defiant independence, and
restless creative ambition - three qualities that virtually guarantee music
press acclaim - the group's frontman, Ira Kaplan, even tenured as a rock
scribe prior to finding success as a performer. So frequently compared to
the Velvet Underground that they even portrayed the legendary group in the
1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, the Hoboken, New Jersey-based Yo La Tengo
have explored the extremes of feedback-driven noise rock and sweetly
melodic pop, shading their work with equal parts scholarly composure and
fannish enthusiasm. Prolific and mercurial, they have ultimately
transcended their myriad influences to ensconce themselves as a beloved
institution of the indie community.
These days, every band seems eager to honor the anniversary of one of its
landmark albums, usually in the form of a concert tour or an expanded
reissue, and even Yo La Tengo have gotten into the act - a quarter century
after they released their endlessly charming 1990 LP "Fakebook", in which
they covered a handful of their favorite songs and reworked a few of their
own numbers in semi-acoustic fashion, YLT have recorded what amounts to a
sequel, 2015's "Stuff Like That There". Just like a sequel to a 1980s
horror movie, "Stuff Like That There follows" the template of the original
as closely as possible - there are two new songs, three remakes from the
YLT back catalog, and nine covers, which range from the instantly
recognizable (Hank Williams' 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry', inspired by Al
Green's version) to the thoroughly obscure (unless you're a Hoboken pop
obsessive or a James McNew completist, "Automatic Doom" by the Special
Pillows is probably not on your hit parade).
Just as importantly, original Yo La Tengo guitarist Dave Schramm, who
appeared on "Fakebook", returned for the Stuff Like That There sessions,
and while his style would have been a poor fit beside Ira Kaplan's clouds
of six-string skronk that became a highlight of YLT's work from "President
Yo La Tengo" onward, for stuff like this, Schramm's graceful sound, full of
echo and clean single-note leads, meshes gloriously with Kaplan's
implacable strum and the steady shuffle of bassist James McNew and drummer
and vocalist Georgia Hubley. As 'quiet' Yo La Tengo goes, like "Fakebook"
this is top shelf, beautiful, and subtly joyous, and while the songs are
well chosen and the performances are warm and passionate despite the low
decibel level, the real secret weapon here is Georgia Hubley's vocals.
Like Maureen Tucker singing "After Hours", what Hubley lacks in range she
more than makes up for in her ability to infuse a song with feeling, and
from the heartache of "My Heart's Not in It" and the lover's kiss-off of
"Butchie's Tune" to the sweetly fractured romanticism of "Friday I'm in
Love," Hubley's work beautifully demonstrates how much more less can be. If
"Stuff Like That There" isn't as revelatory as "Fakebook", it's a splendid,
beguiling album that's perfectly suited for late nights and rainy
afternoons, and a welcome reminder of one of the many, many things Yo La
Tengo do so well.
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