– Charlotte SaintoinThe chorus that Georgia Hubley sings softly on the second track of New Jersey’s 15th studio album serves almost as a mission statement for the trio: “Whenever I see you, there are shades of blue.” Yo La Tengo are, as so often, blue: but theirs is not the midnight blue of despair, but the pale blue of melancholy, and sometimes the sharp, unending blue of a cloudless sky. Maracas, warm and slow percussions, low and soft voices, bass in slow motion, and whispering guitars draw up a meditative opus, closer to Alice Coltrane than the mad and poisonous funk of Sly & The Family Stone’s There’s A Riot Going On(1971). The boiled down instrumentation navigates here and there on Shoegazian vapours (What Chance Have I Got, Dream Dream Away), towards tender folk strings (She May, She Might) and bossa backwashes (Esportes Casual), even sleeping under the Tropics (Polynesia #1). Led since 1986 by the couple Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, the band are reunited here in a trio with bassist James McNew, and goes into a quiet and peaceful hibernation. After Stuff Like That There (2015), in which they smoothly revisited tracks of their own or from others, this fifteenth album feels much more sedated. While there’s a riot going on you will feel capable of bobbing through like a cork.It’s a cotton revolution for Yo La Tengo. Within two listens you will be powerless to resist the magnetic draw of ‘Shades of Blue’, will involuntarily hear ‘She May, She Might’ on your internal jukebox first thing in the morning and ‘Let’s Do It Wrong’ late at night. You’d imagine most of the songs had sprung forth whole, since they will enter your head that way. You’d never guess this, since the layers are finessed with such a liquid brush. Songs came together over long stretches, sometimes as much as a year going by between parts. They did not rehearse or jam together beforehand they turned on the recorder and let things coalesce. There are shimmery hazes, spectral rumbles, a flash of backward masking, ghostly flamingos calling “shoo-bop shoo-bop.” Even if your mind is not unclouded – shaken, misdirected, out of words and out of time – you can still float, ride the waves of an ocean deeper than your worries and above the sound.įor Yo La Tengo this is a slow-motion action painting and Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew did it all themselves, in their rehearsal studio, with no outside engineer (John McEntire later did the mix). If records were dedicated to the cardinal elements, this one would be water. The sound burbles and washes and flows and billows. While there’s a riot going on, Yo La Tengo will remind you what it’s like to dream. 84 CHARLIE MOPIC 1989 ZIP DOWNLOADYo La Tengo – There’s A Riot Going On (2018)FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz Time – 01:03:23 minutes 1,2 GB Genre: Indie RockStudio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: 7Digital Front Cover © Matador“There’s a Riot Going On” is the fifteenth full-length album by the American Indie-Rock band Yo La Tengo.
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