The New Jersey Invasion continues - the night after Garden State band Titus Andronicus rocked The Masquerade, Hoboken's indie-rock royalty Yo La Tengo played at Terminal West.
No opening act, just two sets by Yo La Tengo, the first consisting mostly of quieter and gentler songs from their latest album, There's A Riot Going On, and the second considerably louder (mostly) and more energetic, featuring various songs from previous albums.
Photos from the quieter, more introspective first set, as is apparent from Georgia's acoustic guitar.
Yo La Tengo aren't anything if not eclectic though, and even the quieter set included experimentation and improvisation. They didn't really break between songs but instead each song collapsed or dissolved into some spontaneous soundscapes before the next song emerged out of the soup. Here's a short clip from one of those interludes.
The second, harder-rocking set climaxed with one of Ira Kaplan's signature feedback-guitar freakouts in The Story of Yo La Tengo (from 2006's I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass).
Yo La Tengo's encores are famous for their cover songs, and that night they covered What'cha Gonna Do About It by Small Faces and closed the evening with Sun Ra's doo-wop oddity Somebody's In Love (which they recorded in 2015 on Stuff Like That There). Between those two covers, they played a quieter version of Sugarcube off of 1997's I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (they played a louder version as the penultimate song of their second set).
Our fourth or fifth time seeing Yo La Tengo. As always, a good show.
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