Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-pura (Black Vinyl)

Yo La Tengo - Electr-o-pura (Black Vinyl)On their seventh studio album, Yo La Tengo would further expand on the venturous songwriting established on their previous album Painful with stunning craft and a deepened exploration of contrasting textures, moods and atmospherics. Chock full with moments of pop gold like Tom Courtenay, melancholic ballads such as the heartbreaking Pablo And Andrea, and sweeping, feedback laden jams like the show stopping Blue Line Swinger, Electr o pura is a

Only the crystalline jangle of electronically manipulated percussion prevents the track from gliding off into the ether

” an intimate piano-led track with vocal samples

in the words of frontman Joe Love

Deluxe freshly remastered edition of Royal Trux’s seminal debut album

and American style funk instrumentation into a unique sound they dubbed as “Nyah-rock

and tensile bass tones that thrash around in the head like a rubber ball

It was an evolution that would produce some of the most startlingly brilliant and innovative music of the period

Every track is pushed deep into the red

Hailed as a "future folk hero" by Alternative Press

DIIV—Zachary Cole Smith [lead vocals

and unveils the hypocrisy

the name a reference to a misheard play on words of Boston’s Magic 106