- ReleaseProduct
- Fade
- Artist
- Display Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE9945
- Release Date
- January 14, 2013
-
Vinyl 1×LP
$24.99 -
CD
$10.99
-
Download
$9.99320 kbps, LAME-encoded
Fade is the most direct, personal and cohesive album of Yo La Tengo's career. Recorded with John McEntire at Soma Studios in Chicago, it recalls the sonic innovation and lush cohesion of career high points like 1997‘s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One and 2000’s ...And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out. The album is a tapestry of fine melody and elegant noise, rhythmic shadowplay and shy- eyed orchestral beauty, songfulness and experimentation.
But Fade attains a lyrical universality and hard-won sense of grandeur that’s rare even for this band. It weaves themes of aging, personal tragedy and emotional bonds into a fully-realized whole that recalls career-defining statements like Blood on the Tracks, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, or Al Green's Call Me.
"Nothing ever stays the same / Nothing’s explained," the band sing in unison on the reflective opening track "Ohm". "We try not to lose our hearts / Not to lose our minds." It’s a straightforward sentiment for a band who prefer private intimation to forceful expression. It makes the song’s resistance to resignation feel that much more earned.
This is the first time Yo La Tengo has collaborated with producer John McEntire, best known for his work in Tortoise as well as for recording such artists as Bright Eyes, Stereolab and Teenage Fanclub. He has helped the band hone a set of songs as multifaceted as they are seamless -- flowing from the low-key shimmy of "Well You Better" to the muted motorik kick of "Stupid Things" to the cozy distortion of "Paddle Forward," and right through to the cagey groove, horns and strings of the gorgeous album closer, "Before We Run," in which Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan sing "Take me to your distant lonely place / Take me out beyond mistrust."
Fade's emotional core sits at its very center with two songs, one sung by Kaplan and one by Hubley. The tender, raw, Kaplan-sung ballad "I'll Be Around" pivots around a circular guitar figure set against James McNew's pulsating bassline. The song's simplicity and starkness stand like a beacon against the emptiness. The following track, "Cornelia and Jane," features Hubley gently singing, "I hear them whispering, they analyze / But no one knows what's lost in your eyes / Sending the message that doesn't get to you / How can we care for you?" supported by whispering cushions of horns and delicate vocal harmonies. The effect is both heartbreaking and reassuring.
Digital Tracklist
-
1
Ohm
6:47
Buy
Ohm
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
2
Is That Enough
4:14
Buy
Is That Enough
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
3
Well You Better
2:37
Buy
Well You Better
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
4
Paddle Forward
2:49
Buy
Paddle Forward
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
5
Stupid Things
5:05
Buy
Stupid Things
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
6
I'll Be Around
4:47
Buy
I'll Be Around
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
7
Cornelia and Jane
4:49
Buy
Cornelia and Jane
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
8
Two Trains
4:44
Buy
Two Trains
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
9
The Point Of It
3:38
Buy
The Point Of It
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
-
10
Before We Run
6:14
Buy
Before We Run
-
WAV / FLAC
$1.99 -
MP3
$1.35
-
Yo La Tengo
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- ReleaseProduct
- This Stupid World
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE1929
- Release Date
- February 10, 2023
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- ReleaseProduct
- Fallout
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE1940DS
- Release Date
- November 2, 2022
- Download
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- ReleaseProduct
- I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE1877DA
- Release Date
- April 22, 2022
- LP (special)
- Download
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- ReleaseProduct
- Sleepless Night
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE1509DS
- Release Date
- October 9, 2020
- EP
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- ReleaseProduct
- We Have Amnesia Sometimes
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE1633DS
- Release Date
- July 17, 2020
- Download
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- ReleaseProduct
- There’s A Riot Going On
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE11666
- Release Date
- March 16, 2018
- LP (special)
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- ReleaseProduct
- Stuff Like That There
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE10795
- Release Date
- August 28, 2015
- LP
- CD
- Download
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- ReleaseProduct
- Extra Painful
- Label
- Matador
- Catalogue Number
- OLE10635
- Release Date
- December 1, 2014
- LP
- CD
- Download
Yo La Tengo
-
- Artist
- Yo La Tengo
- Merch
- Pres. McKinley Academy of Rock Sweatshirt
- Label
- Matador
- Release Date
- July 29, 2022