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Yo La Tengo - Here To Fall Remixes Instores June 8th
By far the most beloved track from their album Pouplar Songs, based on track scans and YouTube views, Yo La Tengo release the Here To Fall Remixes.
Yo La Tengo’s third out-of-the-box remix EP in 14 years, following the amazing Autumn Sweater and Danelectro Remix EPs, Here To Fall Remixes features interpretations by DE LA SOUL, RJD2 and PETE ROCK, plus the original album version of the track.
“Here To Fall” is about a couple having a tense conversation about the future over the background of
menacing, descending chords and distorted wa-wa guitar.
Each of these legendary hip hop performers has taken the song and the story and made it their own. Maseo from De La Soul strips the track to its core only to add driving guitars and a heavy groove. RJD2’s take is as cool and atmospheric as you’d expect.
It is the EP’s closer that truly takes Here To Fall to the next level. Pete Rock’s remix is dusky, minimal, abstract and hypnotic – carving it down to the discrete elements of the human relationship, then dropping a verse about Yo La Tengo themselves – in a word, awesome.
Available on US import CD and 12” EP, the vinyl includes a complimentary MP3 download coupon.
Yo La Tengo recently played Coachella in mid-April and then 3 sold-out shows at the Fillmore with Camera Obscura, Thee Oh Sees, and Sic Alps.
For more information, please visit www.yolatengo.com, www.matadorrecords.com, www.beggarsgroup.ca
“‘Here To Fall’ is a psychedelic soul burner… Nearly guitarless, with a menacing electric piano and cinematic strings lifted from an Isaac Hayes soundtrackit’s an ear-catcher for anyone expecting the same old same old. If there’s an antecedent here, it’s the treasured “Autumn Sweater”, but beaten and wary and a little
dangerous, Ira Kaplan refusing to play the kindly, reassuring grandfather: “I know you’re worried/ I’m worried too.” – Pitchfork (Best New Music)
“‘Here To Fall’ is a sucker punch of an opener, Kaplan’s voice delicate as it surfs on churning bursts of bass.” – Drowned In Sound
“Is there anything Yo La Tengo can’t do?” – Pop Matters
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