A showcase for Georgia Hubley's friendly vocals, this all-acoustic, campfire sing-along album is a collection of covers including favorite John Cale, Flamin' Groovies,...
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Recommending Fakebook as the best place to begin a relationship with Yo La Tengo is slightly disingenuous, mainly because Yo La Tengo has never made another record like it,...
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While its title cleverly parodies Bob Dylan's "From a Buick 6," Painful's "From a Motel 6" is its own beast entirely -- matching Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley's soft, dreamy...
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With song titles like "Mushroom Cloud of Hiss" and "Five-Cornered Drone (Crispy Duck)," May I is classic Yo La Tengo merging pop and noise in an awesome aural display. Songs...
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Two records now available as a single CD, these really show off Yo La Tengo's ability to create musical extremes. New Wave Hot Dogs has the firm pop sense and strong...
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The songwriting of Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley blossoms on President, rich with ethereal harmonies, echoing guitar hooks, and warm tones. President is now packaged on a...
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With the feedback loop that opened "Barnaby, Hardly Working," Yo La Tengo announced that they'd finally truly arrived as a band. Though ostensively just a seven-song EP,...
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Anyone who encountered Yo La Tengo's first album, Ride the Tiger, upon its original release in 1986 can be forgiven if they didn't immediately recognize that the band would...
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Shaker might make more sense if it were called Sleeper, because the three songs on this post-Painful EP are more somber than rocking. The title track, released previously as...
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Yo La Tengo has released several fine albums before, but only Painful encapsulates their folky guitar experimentalism perfectly. Alternating between dreamy Velvet...
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After the noisy but dream-like drift of Painful, Electr-O-Pura found Yo La Tengo in livelier and more outwardly enthusiastic form; while they had hardly abandoned their more...
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Functioning as a virtual catalog of mid-'90s indie rock trends, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is an astonishing tour de force from Yo La Tengo, establishing their deep...
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Yo La Tengo is not the first band to come to mind when discussing potential remix candidates, which is no doubt largely why these four conceptualizations of the I Can Hear...
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Yo La Tengo released a mostly-covers album called Fakebook in 1990. By 1998, Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley had worked out a few more, so they decided to record an EP that...
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I figure I probably shouldn't like this album, but I do. This is one of
the most relentlessly derivative records I've heard in some time: When
the band isn't sounding like...
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After years as one of indie rock's standard-bearing groups, Yo La Tengo surpasses itself with And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. A culturally literate, emotionally...
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Making their debut in 1985 with a 45 that paired the group's own "The River of Water" with a take on Love's "A House Is Not a Motel," Yo La Tengo established their love of...
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After years as one of indie rock's standard-bearing groups, Yo la Tengo surpasses itself with And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. A culturally literate, emotionally...
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Following the near unanimous success of 2000's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, Yo La Tengo released material from two collaborative projects. First, the double 7"...
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Three years after 2000's brilliant And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, Yo La Tengo returns with Summer Sun, an album that's as settled and smooth as the previous one...
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