Yo La Tengo
Summer Sun

THE REVIEW

YO LA TENGO! was the cry of a Spanish baseball player.
Ira Kaplan, a baseball lover, decided to adopt it as the name for the band formed in 1986, which has had various line-ups and is now composed of Ira, Georgia Hubley, and bassist James McNew.

The twelfth album comes out 3 years after the beautiful "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out" (which I personally prefer...).
SUMMER SUN definitely sounds more "uniform" compared to their previous records, although the desire to experiment and be influenced by the most diverse musical genres, which has always been the "philosophy" behind the YO LA TENGO project, is not lacking.

Their latest colorful CD contains fragile, tranquil, melancholic yet optimistic music, music that could be described as jazzy and psychedelic rock but in extremely soft tones, so much so that you could listen to it at a very high volume without disturbing anyone...
But the perfect situation to listen to it, in my opinion, is this: summer, early morning, around 8... after a night of revelry... a semi-deserted beach, headphones in your ears, stretched out on a deck chair (preferably in pajamas) lounging in a half-sleep, napping warmed by the mild morning sun and being lulled by the languid music of "Let's Be Still" (!) or "Little Eyes"... and then stretching, now languid from the sun and music, because someone arrived to wake you with bringing you a latte macchiato and a cream croissant...