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Cheryl Dunn

YO LA TENGO release The Bunker Sessions EP

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It’s been a triumphant year in Yo La Tengo -world: Georgia, Ira, and James released a highly-acclaimed new album (This Stupid World), performed a sold-out US tour, and travelled throughout the globe. Ira even put a heater straight across home plate at Citi Field. And there’s more to come. 

Today, they’ve got a new EP landing on digital services, The Bunker Sessions, which collects live performances of This Stupid World songs ‘Fallout’, ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown’, ‘Aselestine’ and ‘Apology Letter’, plus James McNew-led classic ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ from 1997’s I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. Watch the band perform the songs live at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn below

TRACKLIST 

  1. Sinatra Drive Breakdown
  2. Aselestine
  3. Fallout 
  4. Apology Letter
  5. Stockholm Syndrome

Praise for This Stupid World 

“Yo La Tengo’s best album in at least a decade.” – Pitchfork (Best New Album)

“Back with one of their best.” – NPR Music 

“Yo La Tengo have reached another peak.” – Variety

“A record like this makes easing towards the abyss feel a little less painful.” – Rolling Stone ****

‘Another staggering collection of music, echoing chapters from Yo La Tengo’s past while also stretching out into new horizons, somehow, 39 years into their career.” – Stereogum 

“A timeless, quietly poignant distillation of the band’s singular essence.”  – New York Times 

 

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