Stuff Like That There
An acoustic-leaning covers collection in the vein of 1990’s Fakebook, Stuff Like That There finds Yo La Tengo tackling songs by the Cure and Hank Williams along with a number of obscurities, and also finds them re-working some of their own material.
In 1990, Yo La Tengo released Fakebook, a quiet covers album that revealed a crucial aspect of the band's identity on record for the first time. They eschewed well-known hits on Fakebook, focusing on obscure songs by artists that were often equally obscure, like the Escorts and The Scene is Now, and included a few of their own originals, both new songs and new versions of older ones.
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Two years on from 13th album Fade, Yo La Tengo return with Stuff Like That There: a collection of covers and reworkings from their formidable history.
For years, decades even, Yo La Tengo have inhabited the role of the indie mainstay; "business as usual" could describe any of their albums since the mid-aughts at least. That makes Yo La Tengo sound like a band who sticks to one successful sound, however,
Four years on from their debut, New Jersey's Yo La Tengo released a curious collection of covers and original material rendered in an acoustic
The album continues the band’s slippery practice of defining themselves through a mixtape-style method of cover curation.
Stripped-down versions of their own songs sit alongside obscure covers in an oddly pointless but beautiful release