Blog: loudloop

Yo La Tengo's twelfth full length studio album, Popular Songs , is really the tale of two albums mashed together to form one eclectic and wide ranging collection that touches on a variety of genres. Under normal circumstances this type of record would not work and instead would come off as an unfocused mishmash of non-convergent ideas. However, Popular Songs proves to be another quintessentially successful effort from the trio from Hoboken, New Jersey. The fist nine tracks on Popular Songs are [...]