You’ve partied your teens and early-to-mid twenties away. It’s a
\nFriday night and you’re too tired to meet with your single friends
\nat a new hipster\/dive bar with shitty service and outrageously high
\nprices for drinks. All you and your significant other have to look
\nforward to is a Friday night at home, a bin full of laundry and a
\nCD player.<\/p>\n
Domesticated life is often thought of as complacency and the
\nsurrender of recklessness. Fortunately, someone forgot to tell Yo
\nLa Tengo this. The trio, consisting of married couple Ira Kaplan
\nand Georgia Hubley and bassist James McNew, have been poster
\nchildren\/punching bag boys for the indie rock movement since 1991.
\nHowever, it wasn’t until the late ’90s when Yo La Tengo released
\nback-to-back masterpieces (
\nI Can Feel The Heart Beating As One<\/i> and
\nAnd Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out<\/i>) that the band
\ngained national critical acclaim. The band even made it into “The
\nHipster’s Handbook” – as author Robert Lanham generalized that if
\nyou possess a Yo La Tengo record, virtually anyone in the world can
\nkick your ass.<\/p>\n
To call
\nI Can Feel The Heart Beating As One<\/i> downtempo is like
\ncalling Green Day’s
\nKerplunk!<\/i> hyper. The album is an atmospheric wonder with a
\nfew truly great, catchy songs scattered about with a Beach Boys
\ncover (“Little Honda”) thrown in for good measure. “Sugarcube” is
\nas sweet as the title entails. Still, most of the album progresses
\nin a trance-like format. If you have listened to NPR on a regular
\nbasis for the past five years, no doubt you’ve heard bits of this
\nalbum played in snippets in between air segments.<\/p>\n
Comparisons to the Velvet Underground are inevitable: both have
\na bookish, elitist fan base, both bands have albums engaged in
\nheavy feedback and both are undeniably cool. Still, once the
\nsmugness wears off after a few listens, the listener is left with
\nsome truly beautiful songs, namely Hubley’s ethereal singing on
\n“Shadows” and the aptly-titled “Autumn Sweater.”<\/p>\n
\nI Can Feel The Heart Beating As One<\/i> may not contain the
\ndoe-eyed romanticism of more traditional romantic-themed albums.
\nThe only thing romantic about the album is its overall feel — a
\ncouple sharing in the joys of making some truly great tunes. But if
\nthat’s not romantic, than I don’t know what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":26603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[6969],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-37849","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-yo-la-tengo","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/37849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=37849"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=37849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}