For Electr-O-Pura’s 25th anniversary, the 58 minute master has been expanded into a 2xLP edition for the highest quality audio. Now in a gatefold sleeve. Reuniting with Painful producer and engineer Roger Moutenot, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew set up shop at Alex the Great studios in Nashville, TN to record their seventh studio album “Electr-O-Pura“. Chock full with moments of pop gold like “Tom Courtenay”, melancholic ballads such as the gorgeous, Hubley-fronted “Don’t Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2)”, and sweeping, feedback-laden jams like the show-stopping “Blue Line Swinger”, “Electr-O-Pura” expands on the venturous song writing established on Painful with stunning craft and a deepened exploration of contrasting textures, moods and atmospherics.
On their seventh studio album, Yo La Tengo would further expand on the venturous song writing established on their previous album “Painful” with stunning craft and a deepened exploration of contrasting textures, moods and atmospherics.
The heartbreaking “Pablo And Andrea”, and sweeping, feedback-laden jams like the show-stopping “Blue Line Swinger”, “Electr-o-pura” is a thrilling document of one of America’s most beloved bands hitting their creative stride and remains one of the most sublime records the band has released in their uninterrupted 36-year career.
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”. Now in a gatefold sleeve and cut from the original 58-minute master, the new reissue is pressed for the first time on two LPs to ensure the highest quality of audio the album has had on vinyl to date.
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