Yo La Tengo

Consistently slavered-over indie rockers Yo La Tengo make it difficult for naysayers to disagree with the critical mob on their 12th album. Husband and wife Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley don't just write songs that effortlessly speak to their encyclopedic knowledge of rock 'n' roll, they have made a science of recording this deceptively simple music. "Here to Fall," "Periodically Double or Triple" and "Avalon or Someone Very Similar" are indisputably good indie rock songs, but the real joy is in listening to these drums. They're ... miniature! And the guitars are like glass.

Playing like a welcome sequel to 2006's style-hopping I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat
Your Ass, Yo La Tengo's 16th studio album finds the New Jersey trio bringing out Farfisa
solos and celebrating ongoing couplehood. On genial uptempo songs like the string-laden
"If It's True," long-married duo Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan find knowing nonchalance
amid niggling troubles, and they assert continued fealty on the warm fuzz-drone... More >