Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 363 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 145 Mb | Scans included
Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Shoegazing | Label: Matador | # OLE 132-2 | Time: 00:58:29
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 363 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 145 Mb | Scans included
Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Shoegazing | Label: Matador | # OLE 132-2 | Time: 00:58:29
Electr-O-Pura is the seventh studio album by the American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released on May 2, 1995 by Matador Records. Electr-O-Pura received very positive reviews from music critics. Steven Mirkin, writing for Entertainment Weekly, commented: "Combining homespun charm, critical sophistication, and a fan's enthusiasm, Yo La Tengo sounds like a well-adjusted Velvet Underground. Electr-O-Pura's songs run the gamut from loopy pop to pensive folk to flat-out weird; their unpretentious honesty brings them together into a musically and emotionally satisfying whole." In 1996, the album was ranked at number 9 in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1995. Similarly, Spin placed the album at number 11 on their list of the "20 Best Albums Of '95".
After the noisy but dream-like drift of Painful, Electr-O-Pura found Yo La Tengo in livelier and more outwardly enthusiastic form; while they had hardly abandoned their more subdued and contemplative side, as evidenced by the lovely "The Hour Grows Late" and "Pablo and Andrea," they seemed eager to once again explore the grittier textures they'd unearthed on President Yo La Tengo and May I Sing With Me with tunes like the gleefully manic "False Ending" and the bizarre horn-blasted "Attack on Love." Yo La Tengo also served up one of the most perfectly realized pop tunes in their repertoire with "Tom Courtenay" (which not only name checks the Beatles, but boasts a tune the Fab Four would have been happy to come up with themselves), and revisited the concept of the noisy groove jam (which they pioneered on "The Evil That Men Do (Pablo's Version)") with the acetone-powered "False Alarm" and the joyous "Blue Line Swinger." Throughout, Ira Kaplan's simple but forceful guitar lines, Georgia Hubley's steady, subtly inventive drumming, and James McNew's solid, supportive bass add up to a group that prizes intelligence and imagination over flash, and makes it work over and over. Few bands have consistently better ideas than Yo La Tengo, and they make 14 of them work like a charm on Electr-O-Pura. (By the way, those incongruous comments about the songs were lifted from an obscure book on the Blues Project, and don't trust those timings on the back cover – they're deliberately inaccurate.)Review by Mark Deming, Allmusic.com
Altern-A-Pura would be more like it. Brimful of punk, fuzz, feedback, noise, and the lovingly amped squelches of fingers sliding off strings, their seventh album is a subcultural tour de force, luxuriating so sybaritically in guitar sound that I'm reluctant to mention that the tunes are pretty good. That's why it's the best record they've ever made, though. Singing's breathy as usual, with Ira yelling when the time is right. As for the lyrics, you know–murmured, gnomic, pop culture references, that kind of thing. (A)Review by Robert Christgau
Tracklist:
01. Decora (03:26)
02. Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) (06:41)
03. The Hour Grows Late (03:06)
04. Tom Courtenay (03:29)
05. False Ending (00:56)
06. Pablo and Andrea (04:16)
07. Paul Is Dead (02:26)
08. False Alarm (05:27)
09. The Ballad of Red Buckets (04:00)
10. Don't Say a Word (Hot Chicken #2) (03:28)
11. (Straight Down to the) Bitter End (03:58)
12. My Heart's Reflection (06:01)
13. Attack on Love (01:51)
14. Blue Line Swinger (09:18)
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Yo La Tengo / Electr-O-Pura
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Yo La Tengo / Electr-O-Pura
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