This bold, eclectic, 80-minute album is the pinnacle of the band's twenty-year career. From eleven-minute guitar jams to gorgeous ballads to winsome horn-drenched pop songs, this album is all over the map, in a very good way. Features the talents of longtime Nashville producer Roger Moutenot, violinist Dave Mansfield of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, and the jacket artistry of Gary Panter (Raw, Jimbo).

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VINYL FORMAT. This bold, eclectic, 80-minute album is the pinnacle of the band's twenty-year career. From eleven-minute guitar jams to gorgeous ballads to winsome horn-drenched pop songs, this album is all over the map, in a very good way. Features the talents of longtime Nashville producer Roger Moutenot, violinist Dave Mansfield of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, and the jacket artistry of Gary Panter (Raw, Jimbo).

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Yo La Tengo began life as one among hundreds of Velvet Underground-inspired bands, banging out dark, skittish tunes that displayed YLT guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan's affection for Uncle Lou as well as Yo La Tengo's commitment to creating a gently subversive groove. Over the years, the band, which also features Kaplan's wife Georgia Hubley on drums and vocals, has gone through more identity changes than David Bowie, from acoustic folk-rock to wailing, Sonic Youth-like guitarchitecture. On this album, the ba   [ read more ]

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The credits roll over "Beach Party Tonight," the lead cut from Yo La Tengo's twelfth record "Summer Sun," and pulls you into the scenery with its gentle, yet foreboding, tentacles. Careful with that beach ball, Eugene, as the shards of glass tempered to look like sand rip up your heels as you enter what could be the darkest summer surf record ever recorded. A backdrop of winter storms paints nearly every reference to summer, sunshine, and good will towards men (with lyrics "you blame the sun as the cause of   [ read more ]

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3xCD VERSION! 42 songs spread over three CD's, Prisoners Of Love is a sprawling, enthralling summation of the career-todate of Yo La Tengo. It isn't their place to call themselves The Greatest Band On Earth but it's ours. The first two CDs are cramed full of previously released highights from YLT's pre-Matador tenure along with the most sizzling moments from their 2nd decade in show biz. The 3rd disc is the sort of rarities collection that will have you wondering why they bothered to do a two disc ve   [ read more ]

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This six-song EP contains outtakes from "Summer Sun" ("Today Is the Day," "Styles of the Times," "Outsmartener"), but has a more rocking sound than the band felt was appropriate for the sensuous mood of that album. "Outsmartener" features free jazz bassist William Parker playing double reed horn. The EP also includes a gorgeous version of the Bert Jansch song, "Needle Of Death," another unreleased song "Dr. Crash," and an acoustic version of "Cherry Chapstick." A stunning companion piece to "Summer Sun" and   [ read more ]

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This specially priced single is the first new non-instrumental release from Hoboken's own since 2000's "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out." In the spirit of the times, the band has recorded several versions of Sun Ra's defiant anthem, "Nuclear War," a favorite at live shows over the past few years. Each version features different guest musicians such as Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell, Jr., Susie Ibarra, and Josh Madell, along with the original Yo Le Tengo trio, and a remix by rapper Mike    [ read more ]

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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 subdued and contemplative side, as evidenced by the lovely "The Hour Grows Late" and "Pablo and Andrea," they seemed eager to once again explore the grittier textures they'd unearthed on President Yo La Tengo and May I Sing With Me with tunes like the gleefully manic "False Ending" and the bizarre horn-blast   [ read more ]

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#77 Seller of 2005! 2xCD VERSION!! 26 songs spread over two CD's, Prisoners Of Love is a sprawling, enthralling summation of the career-to-date of Yo La Tengo. It isn't their place to call themselves The Greatest Band On Earth but it's ours. The two CD version crams together previously released highights from YLT's pre-Matador tenure along with the most sizzling moments from their 2nd decade in show biz. Beautifully packaged, liner notes from Byron Coley and Joe Puleo.

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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, and perhaps never will. So, as completely wonderful as this record is (and believe me, it is), it's an accurate representation of one side of Yo La Tengo, and assuming that everything sounds like Fakebook might be disappointing. A collection of cover songs that lean toward the idiosyncratic (e.g., Peter Stampfel, Daniel Joh   [ read more ]

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IMPORT. Features "Saturday" from the new album, plus two non-album selections, "Danelectro 2" and "Danelectro 3" (The Danelectro was a fine brand of Sears electric guitars 20 or so years ago).

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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, and perhaps never will. So, as completely wonderful as this record is, it's an accurate representation of one side of Yo La Tengo, and assuming that everything sounds like Fakebook might be disappointing. A collection of cover songs that lean toward the idiosyncratic (e.g., Peter Stampfel, Daniel Johnston, {$Jad Fair   [ read more ]

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