Today we bring you the indisputably excellent news that on February 10th Matador Records will release This Stupid World, the sixteenth album by Yo La Tengo. Whats more, you can listen to the new song Fallout below.
Time keeps moving and things keep changing, but that doesnt mean we can’t fight back. Yo La Tengo have raced time for nearly four decades and, to my ears, they just keep winning. The trios latest victory is called This Stupid World, a spellbinding set of reflective songs that resist the ticking clock.
This music is not so much timeless as time-defiant. I want to fall out of time, Ira Kaplan sings in Fallout. Reach back, unwind.
Part of how Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew escape time is by watching it pass, even accepting it when they must. I see clearly how it ends / I see the moon rise as the sun descends, they sing during opener Sinatra Drive Breakdown.
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