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Yo La Tengo | And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

CD,

Tekst: Ariën Rasmijn

Publicatiedatum: 21 maart 2000

This is the first complete Yo La Tengo record I have ever listened to. I guess to some people it'll be some sort of cardinal sin but this band has always been relatively uncharted territory for me. For the life of me I don't know why. I've seen them play once in the Charlie-tent at Lowlands and that's it. I can't compare this album to any of their other material. I can only make certain somewhat vague references. I don't know what I'm doing but here it goes: Mr. Honest Dummy's review of the new album by the untouchably revered Matador-band Yo La Tengo. Let's see if something fresh comes out of this.
Well, first of all I really have to ask myself some hard questions on the reason why I've been keeping my head up my ass for all this time. This is a genuinely beautiful record by an amazing band that should've been rocking my stereo since forever. Dark, mysterious, gentle noise eminates from my speakers. A perfect mix of great popmelodies ("You Can Have It All", "Tired Hippo"), wellbalanced drones ("Everyday", "Saturday"), country slowcore (think of Low & Will Oldham when listening to "The Crying of Lot G" and "Tears Are In Your Eyes") creeps towards me, and I can't resist. This is sweet. Very sweet indeed. And then there are songs like "Last Days Of Disco" and the second part of the17 minute long culmination "Night Falls on Hoboken". With "Cherry Chapstick" all those Sonic Youth-comparisons I've been hearing about finally make sense. Jeez, how could I not have gotten Anything by this band before this?! I'm going to check out that catalogue.

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