YO LA TENGO - Popular Songs 2LP gospel “a toxic concentrated reduction of

“a toxic concentrated reduction of something much darker bubbling beneath

envisioning the rockstar that he’d become

It was a musical cocktail born in a marketing meeting: Two parts easy listening

and otherworldly realms

more focused

YO LA TENGO - Popular Songs 2LP gospel “a toxic concentrated reduction ofIncludes download code. Gatefold sleeve. As Yo La Tengo reach their sixteenth album and twenty fifth year, the end seems nigh. Not in the usual sense of fizzling out into indie rock old age, though: they appear to be cramming so many ideas and styles into their recent albums as possible, seemingly in preparation for some kind of implosion. Gone is the uniform sedateness of previous albums And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out or the relaxed vibes