Yo La Tengo - cork gig

Jim Comic

Sunday 4th May
YO LA TENGO

Summer Sun is yet another gem of a record from one of America’s greatest bands which will see them building on an already established reputation reaching the peak of their musicianship and talent.

It was January 2000 and the tenth album by Yo La Tengo And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out was unleashed to the world. The world heard it, loved it and fell in love with the band who had made it. Their music would dart between blindingly exquisite pop songs, blisteringly intense wall-of-noise feed-back and good old fashioned punk rock. The band started out with Ira Kaplan (guitars, singing) and his wife Georgia Hubley (Drums, singing) and various other musicians, until James McNew joined their ranks (bass, singing). Live you would see them swap around their instruments, with Ira sometimes shedding the guitar to slam the organ, or Georgia leaving the drums and fiddling with a drum machine, or James putting down his bass and taking up extra percussion.

With Summer Sun the band are continuing the melodic directions that defined much of their last album, with sixties pop tunes, Hawaiian guitars and swooping, textured melodies to create an upbeat and beautiful collage. What remains is a wonderful pop record to be treasured and savoured.


"decades from now, kids will still be hunting down the Yo La Tengo back catalogue and trying to imagine how great they must have been live." The Guardian

“A beautiful, fragile record that demands your full attention, then pays back dividends” Mojo

Half Moon Theatre, Cork.
Doors: 9pm __________________
Tickets: €20