Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
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Artist: Yo La TengoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- Pass The Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind
- Beanbag Chair
- I Feel Like Going Home
- Mr. Tough
- Black Flowers
- The Race Is On Again
- The Room Got Heavy
- Sometimes I Don't Get You
- Daphnia
- I Should Have Known Better
- Watch Out For Me Ronnie
- The Weakest Part
- Song For Mahila
- Point And Shoot
- The Story Of Yo La Tengo
Music reviews of I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Music Review: Lush, diverse, and stunningly well put together.
Rating: 4 Stars
Looking at Yo La Tengo's previous couple records to this one, while they were critically acclaimed and generally well received by audiences, I found the records lacking something and it seemed the band was getting mature (and by mature, I mean old). Thankfully, "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your A**" showed up to remind us that mature doesn't have to mean old.
What's been missing from the band's records has been a good dose of noise and distortion, and this record starts right up with a nearly eleven minute excursion into that territory-- opener "Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind" blazes in with a fierce beat, an aggressive bass and a wave of feedback-driven lead guitar. That guitarist Ira Kaplan doesn't deliver his finest vocal (it sounds a bit forced to me) is a bit besides the point, the piece is a reminder that this is a band that knows how to cut loose.
Mind you, the opener is the exception rather than the rule, but it's really quite stunning what that little bit of energy can provide in framing the record. It also helps that the songwriting, arranging and production are all really top notch on the record, whether it's the bouncy pop songs that so dominate the album (the simply fantastic "Beanbag Chair", single "Mr. Tough"), Pet Sounds inspired instrumental "Daphnia", painful ballad "Black Flowers" (awash in deep brass and strings) or '60s style rocker "I Should Have Known Better". And while there's a couple duds here and there ("The Race is On Again", somewhat unintelligible "Watch Out For Me Ronnie"), for a nearly 80 minute album, this one's remarkably consistently good.
The record's not quite the masterpiece of I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, but it's the best thing they've done in a while. Recommended.
Description of I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
This bold, eclectic, 80-minute album is the pinnacle of the band's twenty-year career. From eleven-minute guitar jams to gorgeous ballads to winsome horn-drenched pop songs, this album is all over the map, in a very good way. Features the talents of longtime Nashville producer Roger Moutenot, violinist Dave Mansfield of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, and the jacket artistry of Gary Panter (Raw, Jimbo).More from Yo La Tengo
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It's no surprise that a group named after something said during a baseball game would title an album after something said during a basketball match. It is a bit of a surprise that this band remains so incredibly good, and capable of surprising even longtime listeners. This one's so diverse and such a mixture of different styles, it's reminiscent of the group's all-request on-air shows they play annually to support New Jersey-based radio station WFMU. Book-ended by two long, droney tunes, you've got garage-rock rave-ups, country-pop, horn-driven R&B, little gorgeous atmospheric songs, some brilliant falsetto singing, and... this list could go on and on. Who else would think to pair conga-style percussion to a Suicide-esque synth drone? Or even to work with longtime Dylan collaborator and strings arranger and violinist David Mansfield and have genius illustrator Gary Panter do the artwork at the same time? It's the little things that matter, especially when you mastered the big ones twenty-plus years ago. --Mike McGonigal
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