Painful
Yo La Tengo
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Release Date: 21/04/2023
Enchanting 1993 masterwork, veering between raving squalls and trancelike experiments! Includes "From A Motel 6". The long-running Hoboken, New Jersey, trio's favorite devices are neatly evidenced on this 1993 disc: barbed guitar freakouts by Ira Kaplan, breathily exquisite Georgia Hubley vocals ("Nowhere Near"), an obscure but excellent cover choice (the Only Ones' "The Whole Of The Law"), and a love for sonic texture that's backed up by first-rate songwriting. Subtle at its loudest and vital at its most subdued, Painful is built around a series of hovering, dreamy bass and organ drones matched by the singers' purr, but propelled by Hubley's insistent rhythms and Kaplan's prickly guitar leads. --Douglas Wolk
1: Big Day Coming
2: From a Motel 6
3: Double Dare
4: Superstar Watcher
5: Nowhere Near
6: Sudden Organ
7: A Worrying Thing
8: I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long
9: The Whole of the Law
10: Big Day Coming
11: I Heard You Looking