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After the noisy but dream-like drift of Painful, Electr-O-Pura found Yo La Tengo in livelier and more outwardly enthusiastic form; while they had hardly abandoned their more subdued and contemplative side, as evidenced by the lovely "The Hour Grows Late" and "Pablo and Andrea," they seemed eager to once again explore the grittier textures they'd unearthed on President Yo La Tengo and May I Sing With Me with tunes like the gleefully manic "False Ending" and the bizarre horn-blasted "Attack on Love." Yo La Tengo also served up one of the most perfectly realized pop tunes in their repertoire with "Tom Courtenay" (which not only name checks the Beatles, but boasts a tune the Fab Four would have been happy to come up with themselves), and revisited the concept of the noisy groove jam (which they pioneered on "The Evil That Men Do (Pablo's Version)") with the acetone-powered "False Alarm" and the joyous "Blue Line Swinger." Throughout, Ira Kaplan's simple but forceful guitar lines, Georgia Hubley's steady, subtly inventive drumming, and James McNew's solid, supportive bass add up to a group that prizes intelligence and imagination over flash, and makes it work over and over. Few bands have consistently better ideas than Yo La Tengo, and they make 14 of them work like a charm on Electr-O-Pura. (By the way, those incongruous comments about the songs were lifted from an obscure book on the Blues Project, and don't trust those timings on the back cover -- they're deliberately inaccurate.)
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Ira Kaplan, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - JAMES MCNEW, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, BMI, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, BMI, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, AssociatedPerformer - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, AssociatedPerformer - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Excellent Classical Songs (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music (BMI), MusicPublisher - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
ROGER MOUTENOT, Producer - Yo La Tengo, MainArtist - Georgia Hubley, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Ira Kaplan, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - JAMES MCNEW, Composer, AssociatedPerformer - Roshashauna Music, MusicPublisher - CMRRA, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, MusicPublisher - Excellent Classical Songs, BMI, MusicPublisher
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
Album review
After the noisy but dream-like drift of Painful, Electr-O-Pura found Yo La Tengo in livelier and more outwardly enthusiastic form; while they had hardly abandoned their more subdued and contemplative side, as evidenced by the lovely "The Hour Grows Late" and "Pablo and Andrea," they seemed eager to once again explore the grittier textures they'd unearthed on President Yo La Tengo and May I Sing With Me with tunes like the gleefully manic "False Ending" and the bizarre horn-blasted "Attack on Love." Yo La Tengo also served up one of the most perfectly realized pop tunes in their repertoire with "Tom Courtenay" (which not only name checks the Beatles, but boasts a tune the Fab Four would have been happy to come up with themselves), and revisited the concept of the noisy groove jam (which they pioneered on "The Evil That Men Do (Pablo's Version)") with the acetone-powered "False Alarm" and the joyous "Blue Line Swinger." Throughout, Ira Kaplan's simple but forceful guitar lines, Georgia Hubley's steady, subtly inventive drumming, and James McNew's solid, supportive bass add up to a group that prizes intelligence and imagination over flash, and makes it work over and over. Few bands have consistently better ideas than Yo La Tengo, and they make 14 of them work like a charm on Electr-O-Pura. (By the way, those incongruous comments about the songs were lifted from an obscure book on the Blues Project, and don't trust those timings on the back cover -- they're deliberately inaccurate.)
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:23
- Main artists: Yo La Tengo
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Matador
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock Alternative & Indie
1995 Matador Records 1995 Matador Records
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