If you heard “Beanbag Chair” (
) and thought, “This new Yo La Tengo album is gonna be awesome!” you thought right.
All the familiar reference points are covered: twee ditties with moaning guitars, feedback-happy garage anthems, and are a handful of beautiful piano ballads with swelling strings that’ll stop you in your tracks. But there are some surprises. The sweet waltz “Sometimes I Don’t Get You” recalls R.E.M. “Mr. Tough” is Ween covering Van Morrison. It’s the Hoboken heroes’ best and most well-rounded collection since I Can Heart The Heart. And it’s called I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass! How awesome.
I’m posting this even though it fades out early at the end (actually a pretty smart move from Matador’s promo dept … so we’ll all go and buy it, yes?).
Yo La Tengo – “Mr. Tough” (MP3 Link Expired)
In stores 9/11 oops, 9/12. YLT play Prospect Park tonight.
UPDATE: Jon texts us from the show:
Just was in the beer line behind barbara bush…g w’s daughter drinks bud light.
Thanks Jon! How many bodyguards?
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This band is GREAT! The album sounds like it will be amazing. Finally!!!…More YLT
Yes, I’m loving this, er… promo copy, despite the fade outs. It’s a return to form after their rather bland last album.
Actually, no, the whole thing is quite awesome. But then again I’m into ‘vooomm pow’, hepcat.
I’m with playlist on this one- disappointing- it sounds pretty tired. They peaked with “And Then Nothing” and it’s all been downhill since.
props for the title and release date
oh ok strike that?no props! well…just for title
it used to be fridays way back in the old days
oh ok strike that?no props! well…just for title
it used to be fridays way back in the old days
playlist…you know *too* much
HEY this already leaked! I found the full album here:
http://www.bigmp3grab.com/transmits1977639393756.php
Thank me later.
-xoxo
Yes, simply enter your email address for that “legal download” and expect to hear from Matador’s lawyers in two to three months’ time.
yo la tengo can’t beat anyone’s ass physically or with their music, just to state the obvious, and they are a wimpy, old, boring indie band in the worst sense of the phrase.
Interesting .. I bet it’s the “preview copy” anyway …
wimpy schmimpy. you can’t just like YLT, you either love them or want to stamp on their faces. no middle ground. me? i’m a lover…
“Beanbag Chair” is awesome. Hepcat sounds like a bunch of Cute Is What We Aim For wannabes.
The song ain’t bad. The high pitched vocals get slightly annoying.
http://www.musictimes.com.au
Is there a more boring indie rock band in the world? Is there a better argument for indie haters than YLT?
I really wasn’t looking around too much, it was babs and all. It was just the two of us in the line. Didn’t see any secret service. They were probably blending in as Yo La Tengo fans. They certainly weren’t hovering.
As for the show is was all lush ambient music set to a half a dozen 20 minute movies about sea creatures mating and being born (sea horses, octopus and some other tiny wild things). Very cool….
Is there a more boring indie rock band in the world? Anathallo, Gatsbys American Dream and not a “band” but how could you forget Bright Eyes?
Is there a better argument for indie haters than YLT? Not sure, but I do know that most YLT haters are pretentious jackasses with shitty ass taste in life and music. I should know. My younger sister hates Yo La Tengo, and she fucking listens to Hawthorne Heights, Dashboard Confessional, and The Killers. Most of the YLT-hating yuppies in my town, most who hang out at the Starbucks right across the mall, wear either a Fall Out Boy shirt, a pink Midtown hoodie, a Static X trenchcoat, or a Lower Class Brats tank top most of the time.
Since Ira ripped off most of my DJing gigs at Maxwell’s back in the day…I’ll just keep coppin’ YLT tunes…:”)
My Prospect Park review + shitty photos:
http://tinyurl.com/j3elx
Awful. Joe Carducci was right – record collectors shouldn’t be in bands.
hey guyz, u shud check out sum FROM FIRST TO LAST. OMG!!1! sonny more IS HAWTT!!!! betta than yola tango w/e! http://www.fromfirsttolast.com
“Mr. Tough” is the worst thing I’ve ever heard, from Yo La Tengo or anyone. It mars this album in a huge way. Otherwise the album’s fine.