Sold Date: May 8, 2023
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Rare pamdemic-era album from Yo La Tengo in excellent condition. Must-have for collectors!

From Pitchfork:

"The New Jersey trio’s latest consists of five formless, comforting drones, recorded with a single microphone placed in the middle of their Hoboken practice space. 

"The New Jersey trio often cope with life’s harder moments by turning down and turning inward—it’s a huge part of what makes them so meaningful to so many. McNew might have also been a bit frazzled from having to learn a new software interface to engineer the layered, loop-dense album; remembering what the multi-track to “Above the Sound” looked like, he said, was enough to make him dizzy.

"He won’t have that problem when he thinks back on We Have Amnesia Sometimes, which was recorded with a single microphone placed in the middle of the band’s Hoboken practice space. As Ira Kaplan explains, in late April, “with the outside world weighing on everybody,” the band figured out how to safely convene and resume “playing formlessly.” This is how many of their songs have begun over the years, but here, they’ve released the raw material. It’s new territory for them: The key difference between these five gentle drones and the band’s abundant  or  work, technically speaking, is that those pieces almost always had some lead melody or some syncopated rhythm, however subtle. Here, there are hints of the former on the third and fourth tracks, and the fourth does have the latter, but otherwise, nobody steps out in front or distinguishes themselves clearly. And that is, generally speaking, the beautiful part of this project."