![]() Like in the case of We Have Amnesia Sometimes, we had no intention of releasing any of the stuff we were doing. There's always that notion that something may come of what we're doing, but there's the freedom and comfort that it doesn't have to. happy to do so without any clear plans for what we're doing or reason for doing it other than just to get together and play. The process is sort of similar, though, in that we're always getting together, we're always playing music. But most everything else happens in our practice room, especially on this record where we never even went anywhere to mix we just recorded and mixed the whole thing ourselves. Very little of it happens outside - maybe lyric writing, primarily. So with 40 years as Yo La Tengo, has a pattern developed as to how a new album starts to form? And how much of that creation process happens outside of the studio? The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. ![]() One thing we did plan is a guest DJ set with McNew, who will share a couple songs with our audience the night before Yo La Tengo's Turner Hall show. We caught up with Kaplan ahead of the band’s return to Milwaukee’s Turner Hall Ballroom to talk about this particular album’s process, jamming onstage and the magic of not planning everything. It’s the sound that’s buoyed the band and endeared them to their fans as an indie rock trio with elements of cathartic improv and relatable, plainspoken poetry. Meditative, distortion-laden jams bookend slow dance tempoed pining with drawling guitars and sparse percussion sending out signals like late-night floodlights. This Stupid World feels as “classic Yo La Tengo” as ever, with its natural ebb and flow. The comforting freedom to connect the dots of these varied, unhurried recordings in a way that made sense to them was part of the album’s engaging feel, Hubley and Kaplan serving as co-directors of this particular collection of sounds.Īnd boy did it work. The album sees the band’s classic wry and gentle style still blooming, resonating and serving them well 37 years after the release of their debut LP, Ride the Tiger.įounded by guitarist/vocalist Kaplan and drummer/vocalist Georgia Hubley, Yo La Tengo has found fresh ways to dispatch their newest musical musings, even while incubating them a little closer to the chest.īassist/vocalist James McNew led the band’s most recent time in the studio, where his consistent recording of rehearsal jams let everyone really unspool their collective creative output. On the title track of Yo La Tengo’s 17th studio album, This Stupid World, Ira Kaplan sings what so many have come to feel nowadays.
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