Yo La Tengo continues the proud Hoboken tradition of innovation that includes The Feelies and started with Frank Sinatra, but they're musical descendents of the distinctive swirling guitar rock style pioneered by New York bands like The Velvet Underground and later expanded by Television. They're the ultimate music nerd band in many ways, conspicuously unconcerned with being fashion plates and interested only in exploring the various cobwebby corners of pop arcana, from folk-pop to garage rock to post-punk to shoegazer and beyond, and reinterpreting it in an idiosyncratic and endearing style that is unmistakably Yo La Tengo [Read More at epitonic.com]
MP3 files:
Availible at yolatengo.com:
- Little Eye (5.9 MB)
- Don't Have to Be So Sad (6.7 MB)
- The Love Life of the Octopus (10.9 MB)
- From a Motel 6 (4.1 MB)
Availible at amazon.com :
Availible at Matador Records:
- Little Eyes
- Don't Have To Be So Sad
- Danelectro 3 (Kit Clayton remix)
- Saturday
- Danelectro 3
- Autumn Sweater (Kevin Shields remix)
Availible at Epitonic.com: