Popular Songs (Yo La Tengo album)

This article is about an album by Yo La Tengo. For the article about popular music in general, see Popular music.
Popular Songs
Studio album by Yo La Tengo
Released September 8, 2009
Recorded Early 2009, Hoboken, New Jersey and Nashville, Tennessee, United States[1]
Genre Indie rock
Length 72:49
Language English
Label Matador
Producer Roger Moutenot
Yo La Tengo chronology
Fuckbook
(2009)		 Popular Songs
(2009)		 Fade
(2013)
Singles from Popular Songs
  1. "Here to Fall"
    Released: 28 July 2009
  2. "Periodically Double or Triple"
    Released: 4 August 2009
  3. "Avalon or Someone Very Similar"
    Released: 11 August 2009
  4. "Nothing to Hide"
    Released: 18 August 2009
  5. "When It's Dark"
    Released: 1 September 2009

Popular Songs is the twelfth full-length album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released digitally, on CD, and double LP on September 8, 2009 by record label Matador.[2]

Content

Artwork

The band contacted conceptual artist Dario Robleto.[3] He contributed three pieces for the album design:

Music videos

Four videos were made by director John McSwain to accompany one song from the album each. In the weeks leading up to the release of the album, a new video was posted on Matador's various "partner sites" and collected on Matador's own website. The first video, for "Here to Fall," was posted on Matador's own "Matablog" on July 28, 2009.[4]

Release

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100[5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[6]
The A.V. ClubA-[7]
BBCpositive[8]
Drowned in Sound8/10[9]
The Guardian[10]
musicOMH[11]
Pitchfork7.9/10[12]
PopMatters[13]
Rolling Stone[14]
Slant[15]

Popular Songs leaked onto the Internet on July 26; in response, Matador began streaming the album to Buy Early Get Now customers on July 28, more than a week before the stream was originally advertised to begin.[16]

Popular Songs was released on September 8, 2009 by Matador. It is their eighth album to be given Matador's Buy Early Get Now treatment,[17] in which it came along with a vinyl LP featuring Yo La Tengo's original score from the film Adventureland, as well as three bonus tracks as download in MP3 and FLAC. The first two of these downloads were demo versions of two album tracks and became available shortly before the release of the CD. The third download became available on December 15, 2009. The same track is also available in the iTunes Store and on the Japanese CD issue of the album.[18]

Track listing

All songs written by Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew.

  1. "Here to Fall" - 5:45
  2. "Avalon or Someone Very Similar" - 3:17
  3. "By Two's" - 4:29
  4. "Nothing to Hide" - 2:46
  5. "Periodically Double or Triple" - 3:53
  6. "If It's True" - 2:39
  7. "I'm on My Way" - 4:35
  8. "When It's Dark" - 3:54
  9. "All Your Secrets" - 4:26
  10. "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven" - 9:39
  11. "The Fireside" - 11:25
  12. "And the Glitter Is Gone" - 15:54
Bonus tracks
  1. "You've Got a Friend" (Carole King) - 4:10 (Japanese CD, Argentine CD, Buy Early Get Now & iTunes bonus track)
  2. "Nothing to Hide (Demo)" - 9:47 (Buy Early Get Now bonus track)
  3. "Periodically Double or Triple (Demo)" - 7:39 (Buy Early Get Now bonus track)

Personnel

String arrangements by Richard Evans

Produced by Roger Moutenot Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound

References

  1. ↑ "Matablog". Matador Records. 2009-06-04. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  2. ↑ "Yo La Tengo Biography". Matador Records. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  3. ↑ "Pitchfork / Take Cover". Pitchfork Media Inc. 2009-09-02. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
  4. ↑ "Matablog". Matador Records. 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  5. ↑ "Popular Songs by Yo La Tengo". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  6. ↑ Allmusic review
  7. ↑ "Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs". 8 September 2009. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  8. ↑ Chick, Stevie. "BBC - Music - Review of Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "Album Review: Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  10. ↑ Costa, Maddy (3 September 2009). "Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs". Retrieved 3 October 2016 – via The Guardian.
  11. ↑ musicOMH review
  12. ↑ "Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs Album Review - Pitchfork". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  13. ↑ "Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  14. ↑ "Album Reviews". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  15. ↑ "Slant Magazine". Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  16. ↑ "Twitter / Matador Records: Yo La Tengo - 'Popular Son". Twitter.com. 2009-07-28. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  17. ↑ "Buy Early Get Now". Buy Early Get Now. 2009-03-22. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  18. ↑ "Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs (CD, Album) at Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 2012-03-19.

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