Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura
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Artist: Yo La TengoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-05-02
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- Decora
- Flying Lesson
- The Hour Grows Late
- Tom Courtenay
- False Ending
- Pablo and Andrea
- Paul Is Dead
- False Alarm
- The Ballad of Red Buckets
- Don't Say a Word
- (Straight Down to the) Bitter End
- My Heart's Reflection
- Attack on Love
- Blue Line Swinger
Free Music Notes for Electr-O-Pura
Free Music Review: Not my flavor.
Hit: 2 Stars
"Electr-O-Pura" is one of those records that it seems like everyone likes more than I do-- it's not that it's a bad album per se, but certainly, I feel like Yo La Tengo had done (Painful) and would do (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One) much better.
My biggest complaint about the record is its penchant for a sameness of sound-- it's a pretty dark record, full of moodiness, loops and downtempo sounds-- in fact, the record is completely dominated by these (opener "Decora", "The Ballad of Red Buckets"). None of them are terribly bad, though some ("Pablo and Andrea") are more listenable than others (the somewhat grating "Paul is Dead"). Having said that, right in the middle of all of this is a slice of pop heaven-- "Tom Courtenay" may be the best pop song in the band's catalog, with a fantastic hook, chugging guitars, a great vocal and a superb feedback-drenched lead guitar.
But like I said before, this is a record that a lot of folks rather like, so it may be something to check out-- there's many records by Yo La Tengo I prefer to this one, but as deeper exploration of the band's catalog ensues, this might be worth looking at.
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Around the time Electr-o-pura came out in 1995, American music critics were starting to recognize Yo La Tengo as a standout band. The Hoboken, New Jersey, trio lived up to that newfound billing on this release, fully realizing the fruits of what they had started on Painful. It was there that Yo La stopped thinking of themselves as a three-piece band with guitar, bass, drums, and the occasional keyboards, instead opening up walls of sound, patterns upon patterns over which Ira Kaplan's guitar soars, dives, and spirals. It's amazing that a great pop song ("Tom Courtenay"); a lopey, sleepy ballad ("Pablo and Andrea"); a droney, open-ended jam ("Blue Line Swinger," with which the band closed its shows for years); and a couple of out-and-out freak-outs could all coexist so naturally. Though there are bands that have mastered each one of those aspects better than Yo La had at this point, not one could combine them into one work as sublime as Electr-o-pura. --Randy SilverAlternative Rock Music CDs
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