Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You & I Will Beat Your Ass
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Artist: Yo La TengoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
- Beanbag Chair
- I Feel Like Going Home
- Mr. Tough
- Black Flowers
- The Race Is On Again
- The Room Got Heavy
- Sometimes I Don't Get You
- Daphnia
- I Should Have Known Better
- Watch Out For Me Ronnie
- The Weakest Part
- Song For Mahila
- Point And Shoot
- The Story Of Yo La Tengo
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Free Music Review: Yo La Fabulous
Hit: 5 Stars
Hoboken NJ trio Yo La Tengo have delivered a gift to those who have considered the band to be one of the great under appreciated bands of recent times. I AM NOT AFRAID... is both a glance back at all the things that have made this band great, as well as a step forward.
The first track (PASS THE HATCHET, I THINK I'M GOOKIND) loudly announces that the band is revisiting past triumphs circa ELECTRA PURA or PAINFUL with blasts of feedback squalls over a lopsided beat that rumbles on for a blissful 10+ minutes. They then downshift into a 60's pop pastiche of BEANBAG CHAIR. By this point, fans will have a satisfied grin on their faces. The rest of the ways is an eclectic tour of the bands strengths, both old and new. Outside of the over 8 minute DAPHNIA, there is not a misstep on board. Actually, DAPHNIA is an interesting ambient exercise, but is about 5 minutes too long FOR MY EARS, and slows the momentum of the album. Newer ingredients, such as well integrated horns, bongos, haunting violin, more prominent piano and falsetto vocals push the Yo La palette forward, keeping this from being a mere exercise in revisiting past glories.
Overall, this stands as one of the best albums this band has released, standing shoulder to shoulder with 1997's I CAN HEAR THE HEART BEATING AS ONE. For Yo La Tengo fans, it does not get much better than this!
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This bold, eclectic, 80-minute album is the pinnacle of the band's twenty-year career. From eleven-minute guitar jams to gorgeous ballads to winsome horn-drenched pop songs, this album is all over the map, in a very good way. Features the talents of longtime Nashville producer Roger Moutenot, violinist Dave Mansfield of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, and the jacket artistry of Gary Panter (Raw, Jimbo).More from Yo La Tengo
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It's no surprise that a group named after something said during a baseball game would title an album after something said during a basketball match. It is a bit of a surprise that this band remains so incredibly good, and capable of surprising even longtime listeners. This one's so diverse and such a mixture of different styles, it's reminiscent of the group's all-request on-air shows they play annually to support New Jersey-based radio station WFMU. Book-ended by two long, droney tunes, you've got garage-rock rave-ups, country-pop, horn-driven R&B, little gorgeous atmospheric songs, some brilliant falsetto singing, and... this list could go on and on. Who else would think to pair conga-style percussion to a Suicide-esque synth drone? Or even to work with longtime Dylan collaborator and strings arranger and violinist David Mansfield and have genius illustrator Gary Panter do the artwork at the same time? It's the little things that matter, especially when you mastered the big ones twenty-plus years ago. --Mike McGonigal
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