Stuff Like That There (album)

Stuff Like That There
Studio album by Yo La Tengo
Released August 28, 2015
Recorded Brooklyn Recording, Kaleidoscope Sound and Water Music
Genre Indie rock
Language English
Label Matador Records
Yo La Tengo chronology
Fade
(2013)		 Stuff Like That There
(2015)

Stuff Like That There is the fourteenth full-length album by Hoboken, New Jersey-based rock band Yo La Tengo.[1] On this album, the band revisits the original concept of their 1990 album Fakebook with a mix of cover songs, "covers" of Yo La Tengo songs, and brand new originals.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The Guardian[5]
NME7/10[6]
Pitchfork7.1/10.0[7]
Robert ChristgauA[8]
Rolling Stone[9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Stuff Like That There received an average score of 74, based on 28 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3] Reviewer Mark Deming of AllMusic commented that "If Stuff Like That There isn't as revelatory as Fakebook, it's a splendid, beguiling album that's perfectly suited for late nights and rainy afternoons, and a welcome reminder of one of the many, many things Yo La Tengo do so well."[4] In his review for the Guardian, Ben Thompson asked whether another Yo La Tengo covers record was really needed and concluded that "[t]he answer to that question appears to be yes."[5] NME reviewer Noel Gardner said that the band had "honed their approach to a point where they can't really sound like anyone except themselves", which he said was "key to the deep likeability" of the record.[6] Critic Stuart Berman of Pitchfork Media said that "taken as a whole, the record stands as a loving portrait of Yo La Tengo’s vast musical and social universe condensed into a small wooden frame. And at a time when the full-album experience is giving way to the almighty playlist, Stuff Like That There handily reasserts Yo La Tengo’s reputation as indie rock’s consummate curators."[7]

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "My Heart's Not In It"  Darlene McCrea 2:48
2. "Rickety"    3:47
3. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"  Hank Williams 2:52
4. "All Your Secrets (original on Popular Songs)"    3:18
5. "The Ballad of Red Buckets (original on Electr-O-Pura)"    4:49
6. "Friday I'm in Love"  The Cure 3:11
7. "Before We Stopped to Think"  Great Plains 2:59
8. "Butchie's Tune"  The Lovin' Spoonful 2:47
9. "Automatic Doom"  Special Pillow 2:37
10. "Awhileaway"    4:03
11. "I Can Feel the Ice Melting"  The Parliaments 2:36
12. "Naples"  Antietam 2:45
13. "Deeper Into Movies (original on I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)"    5:09
14. "Somebody's In Love"  The Cosmic Rays with Le Sun Ra and Arkestra 2:06
Total length:
 45:41

Charts

Chart (2015) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[10] 77
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[11] 86
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[12] 76
French Albums (SNEP)[13] 85
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[14] 29
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[15] 35
UK Albums (OCC)[16] 86
US Billboard 200[17] 96

References

  1. ↑ "Essential Tracks: Yo La Tengo offers cover comforts - LA Times". Los Angeles Times. 30 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Buy Stuff Like That There now from store.matadorrecords.com". Stuff Like That There by Yo La Tengo on store.matadorrecords.com. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  3. 1 2 "Critic Reviews for Stuff Like That There". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  4. 1 2 Deming, Mark. "Stuff Like That There - Yo La Tengo". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-09-01.
  5. 1 2 Thompson, Ben (30 August 2015). "Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There – indie stalwarts stay sneakily wonderful". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  6. 1 2 Gardner, Noel (12 August 2015). "NME Reviews - Yo La Tengo - 'Stuff Like That There'". NME. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  7. 1 2 Berman, Stuart (31 August 2015). "Yo La Tengo: Stuff Like That There". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  8. ↑ Christgau, Robert (28 August 2015). "Yo La Tengo Made Their Loveliest Album Ever: Expert Witness with Robert Christgau". Noisey. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  9. ↑ Hermes, Will (28 August 2015). "Yo La Tengo's New Album: Stuff Like That There". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  10. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Portuguesecharts.com – Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
  15. ↑ "Spanishcharts.com – Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Yo La Tengo – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Yo La Tengo. Retrieved September 9, 2015.

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