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Yo La Tengo 'Today Is The Day'
Yo La Tengo are the neglected puppies of indie rock; show them some attention and there's no getting rid of them. Just six months after the evolved scuzzy pop of 11th LP 'Summer Sunfound' them a new home in the mainstream press, the New Jersey trio are back with a six-track mini album.
This is for the most part a sweet selection of covers - theirs and others - spiced with three newies. But the challenge is making it past the horrendous title track (a disjointed upbeat version of a Summer Suntrack, remarkable for sounding like two different songs competing to be heard over a cement drill).
The rest is a delightful nugget of lo-fi rock, highlighted by the startlingly sensuous cover of Bert Jansch's 'Needle of Death', dense with narcotic beauty. Nice though it is, Today Is the Day feels insubstantial in its own right, though it would've made an ace bonus CD.
Yo La Tengo 'Today Is the Day' (Matador) Released October 20 2003
This review originally appeared in X-Ray magazine.
Tagged as Yo La Tengo, archive
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