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Yo La Tengo I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One CD
An exquisitely detailed collection of songs, emotions and memorable moments. Widely varied, and competently executed experiments crossing many a subgenre of pop and guitar rock. These songs range in homages paid to Silver Apples and the Go Betweens, while others that sound like distant cousins to the Jesus and Mary Chain, Lloyd Cole and Young Marble Giants. From simplistically eloquent pop to drone, Yo La Tengo embrace it all while adding a new beat direction that could be a grand new venture. “Sugarcube” is a flowing paragraph of times, moods, words and synapse enhancing tones that bring us into the family fold. Though this further extends their legacy, it graciously brings us all together in the parlor for a listening party - reuniting many of us left distant since the breakup. Beautiful. (Matador 676 Broadway New York, NY 10012)

Youngs, Richard Making Paper CD
As if Richard joined you for an evening chat about the trials of life, Making Paper’s three movements unfolds. Sitting bedside, the piano and vocal drama is as simultaneously blissfully self-indulgent and frightening as a David Lynch narrative, “Warriors” (track one) hobbles around your toned physique. “The World is Silence in Your Head” (the album’s shortest cut) has the tempo of an elder’s broken frame walking you through the memories of his youth. Poetically Youngs merely repeats the song title accompanied by a piano line that hugs each of its eight syllables. “Only Haligonian,” Richard’s 22+ minute piece wraps the second half of the album in a tender, fragile mood that George Winston only dreamed of. Despite the liner notes reading “recorded…direct to MiniDisc…No overdubs. No remixes” one’s keen ear will be able to detect any flaw that would diminish Youngs’ power to lay his passions out for you to deal with. For Youngs, Making Paper demonstrates the power of a less-is-more mantra; and for the listener the trial is worth pursuing if only to reawaken the humanity that careers and other commitments strip from your soul. (Jagjaguwar 1703 North Maple Bloomington, IN 47404) – Keith York