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YO LA TENGO - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
| TinyMixTapes | | It's frustratingly confounding trying to figure out how Yo La Tengo have been written off by their detractors as "pretentious." Yo La Tengo know their history of obscure rock-and-pop like their multiplication tables, but never once have they used such a vast and powerful knowledge for evil, as in holding themselves above their peers, fans, friends, and other loved ones. In fact, quite the opposite, Yo La Tengo have always, and quite visibly, passed themselves off as a jovial bunch of music nerds, whether it be through hilariously self- deprecating music videos ("Tom Courtney," "Sugarcube") or an inviting and friendly stage presence, crafting music they love from every hodgepodge of sonic paraphernalia that lay in the recesses of their psyche....full text |
| | ShakingThrough | | One gets the feeling that if current media capacities allowed two hours’ worth of music, Yo La Tengo would use up the full 120 minutes. Yo La Tengo is a band so enamored with the exploration and reinvention of musical genres (especially pop and jazz) that the notion of cramming as many styles as possible onto a release is all but second nature at this juncture. For those kosher with the group’s scattershot approach, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass will be a delight. Less enthusiastic listeners will be more inclined to deride the work as an unwieldy, unfocused mess. ...full text |
| | MusicOMH.com | | After 20 glorious years of teetering between New York art rock obscurity and the mainstream success they rightly deserve, Yo La Tengo are back with another collection of uncompromising underground classics....full text |
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