The brilliance of Shadows, like all the best Teenage Fanclub records, is that it sounds like everything they've ever done and like nothing anyone else has ever done, all on one album
Continuing with their ever-expanding Revisionist History series, Matador Records release a 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo’s 1995 album Electr-o-pura.
The new album is quintessential TFC: melodies are equal parts heartwarming and heartaching, guitars chime and distort, keyboard lines mesh and spiral, harmony-coated choruses burst out like sun on a stormy day. 5/14/21