All Music Guide Entry:
Discogs Entry:

Bolstered by the addition of longtime associate/guitarist Dave Schramm, Yo La Tengo's new album has much in common with 1990's fantastic Fakebook, especially the fantastic part. Featuring covers of Antietam, The Cosmic Rays, The Cure, Great Plains, The Lovin' Spoonful, Darlene McCrea, The Parliaments, The Special Pillow and Hank Williams, along with new versions of YLT's "Deeper Into Movies," The Ballad of Red Buckets" and "All Your Secrets," plus two new original compositions "Rickety" and "Awhileaway" "My Heart's Not in It" (Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. BMI) was originally performed by Darlene McCrea, a member of The Cookies and The Raelettes. We wrote "Rickety" (Roshashauna Music/Excellent Classical Songs BMI) for "Stuff Like That There". Our version of Hank Williams's "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music BMI) is inspired by Al Green's from his "Call Me" album. "All Your Secrets" (Roshashauna Music/Excellent Classical Songs BMI) is a rerecording of a song from "Popular Songs". "The Ballad of Red Buckets" (Roshashauna Music/Excellent Classical Songs BMI) is a rerecording of a song from "Electr-o-pura". "Friday I'm in Love" (Universal Music Publishing MGB Limited ASCAP) is by The Cure. "Before We Stopped to Think" (Symbolic Gesture Music BMI) was written by Great Plains. Their version is originally on the "Sum Things Up" lp (but NOT on the "Before We Stop to Think" ep). "Butchie's Tune" (Alley Music Corp/Trio Music Company BMI) is from The Lovin' Spoonful's "Daydream" lp, though we first heard it on "The Best of the Lovin' Spoonful". "Automatic Doom" (Superb Rain Songs BMI) is by The Special Pillow, from their "Inside the Special Pillow" record [not in the database yet]. "Awhileaway" (Roshashauna Music/Excellent Classical Songs BMI) is the other new Yo La Tengo composition on this record. "I Can Feel the Ice Melting" (EMI Longitude Music BMI) is by The Parliaments, before they became Parliament. "Naples" (Sharpsburg Sounds/Songs In The House Of Hassle BMI) is a song by Antietam, from their "Burgoo" lp. "Deeper Into Movies" (Roshashauna Music/Excellent Classical Songs BMI) is a rerecording of a song from "I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One". "SoArtwork [Drawing] – Georgia Hubley Design – Mike Zimmerman Double Bass [Upright Bass], Vocals [Singing] – James McNew Electric Guitar – Dave Schramm Mastered By – Greg Calbi Recorded By – Andy Taub, James McNew, Nick Nagurka Recorded By, Mixed By – Gene Holder Vocals [Singing], Acoustic Guitar – Ira Kaplan Vocals [Singing], Drums – Georgia Hubleymebody's in Love" (Enterplanetary Koncepts BMI) is by The Cosmic Rays with Le Sun Ra and Arkestra. We heard it first on the Sun Ra "The Singles" collection. Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Matador Records Copyright © – Matador Records Published By – Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. Published By – Roshashauna Music Published By – Excellent Classical Songs Published By – Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music Published By – Universal Music Publishing MGB Ltd. Published By – Symbolic Gesture Music Published By – Alley Music Corp. Published By – Trio Music Company Published By – Superb Rain Songs Published By – EMI Longitude Music Published By – Sharpsburg Sounds Published By – Songs In The House Of Hassle Published By – Enterplanetary Koncepts Recorded At – Brooklyn Recording Recorded At – Kaleidoscope Sound Recorded At – Water Music Mixed At – Brooklyn Recording Mastered At – Sterling Sound ©℗ 2015 Matador Records