Popular Songs

Popular Songs

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Personnel: Pamela Sixfin, David Angell (violin); Kristin Wilkinson, Monisa Angell (viola); John Catchings (cello); Doug Wieselman (clarinet).Recording information: Haptown, Nashville, TN; Hoboken USA; IHOP, Nashville, TN.Whether or not Yo La Tengo are being tongue in cheek with the title of their 14th album, POPULAR SONGS does find Hoboken's finest embracing pop song structures with a renewed degree of enthusiasm. This isn't quite the Yo La Tengo "loaded with hits" album, but for a band that's shown an increasing willingness to explore the outer limits of its music in the studio, POPULAR SONGS features nine tunes you can hum along with and sometimes even dance to. "Periodically Double or Triple" and "If It's True" in the first half are two of the most user-friendly songs this band has recorded in quite some time, the former a playfully funky R&B number with a killer bassline and the latter a slice of sweet uptown soul complete with a Hammond B-3 and a polished string section, while

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