YO LA TENGO - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass 2LP live blurring the line between lament

blurring the line between lament and lullaby

There’s not much in the way of screaming—not compared to some of Segall’s most intense work

which spawned such musical touchstones as the Stooges

it expands upon the tentative manoeuvres they’d undertaken with the previous year’s Thriller (1997) and gestures confidently towards its brassy successor

the John Birch Society

YO LA TENGO - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass 2LP live blurring the line between lamentGatefold sleeve. On and on they go always picking at the frays at the edge of their sound pushing it in this direction and that. This is their eleventh album, released in 2006. As has become their habit it contains a mixture of soft and pure ballads, guitar wig outs, cover songs and slight explorations into jazz. We'd expect nothing else from this justly lauded Hoboken trio.