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First Listen: Yo La Tengo, 'Stuff Like That There'

Amid two invigorating new songs and three fresh renditions of Yo La Tengo classics, nine wide-ranging covers are performed with varying degrees of sweetness, sadness, silliness and joy.

“As playfully backward-glancing as it is, Stuff Like That There is by no means a comprehensive overview of YLT’s repertoire. (For a more staggering example, see 2006’s collection of radio sessions, Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics.) But the album does show, yet again, just how euphorically Yo La Tengo scrawls outside the lines — not to mention how soft and tough it can be at the same time.” -  Jason Heller, NPR Music