Stuff Like That There (album)
2015 studio album by Yo La Tengo
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Stuff Like That There is the fourteenth studio album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released in August 2015 by record label Matador.[1]
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| Released | August 28, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | Brooklyn Recording, Kaleidoscope Sound and Water Music | |||
| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 45:41 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Matador | |||
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Content
On this album, the band revisits the original concept of their 1990 album Fakebook with a mix of cover songs, "covers" of Yo La Tengo songs, and brand new originals.[2]
Reception
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AnyDecentMusic? | 7.0/10[3] |
| Metacritic | 74/100[4] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [5] |
| Billboard |  [6] |
| The Guardian | [7] |
| NME | 7/10[8] |
| Pitchfork | 7.1/10[9] |
| Record Collector | [10] |
| Rolling Stone | [11] |
| Slant Magazine | [12] |
| Uncut | 8/10[13] |
| Vice (Expert Witness) | A[14] |
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Stuff Like That There received an average score of 74, based on 28 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[4] Reviewer Mark Deming of AllMusic commented that "If Stuff Like That There isn't as revelatory as Fakebook, it's a splendid, beguiling album that's perfectly suited for late nights and rainy afternoons, and a welcome reminder of one of the many, many things Yo La Tengo do so well."[5] In his review for The Guardian, Ben Thompson asked whether another Yo La Tengo covers record was really needed and concluded that "[t]he answer to that question appears to be yes."[7] NME reviewer Noel Gardner said that the band had "honed their approach to a point where they can't really sound like anyone except themselves", which he said was "key to the deep likeability" of the record.[8] Critic Stuart Berman of Pitchfork said that "taken as a whole, the record stands as a loving portrait of Yo La Tengo's vast musical and social universe condensed into a small wooden frame. And at a time when the full-album experience is giving way to the almighty playlist, Stuff Like That There handily reasserts Yo La Tengo's reputation as indie rock’s consummate curators."[9] Robert Christgau named it the second best album of 2015 in his ballot for The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll.[15]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "My Heart's Not In It" | Gerry Goffin, Russ Titelman | 2:48 |
| 2. | "Rickety" | Yo La Tengo | 3:47 |
| 3. | "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" | Hank Williams | 2:52 |
| 4. | "All Your Secrets" | Yo La Tengo | 3:18 |
| 5. | "The Ballad of Red Buckets" | Yo La Tengo | 4:49 |
| 6. | "Friday I'm in Love" | Perry Bamonte, Boris Williams, Simon Gallup, Robert Smith, Porl Thompson | 3:11 |
| 7. | "Before We Stopped to Think" | Bill Bruner, Dave Green, Ron House, Matt Wyatt, Mark Wyatt | 2:59 |
| 8. | "Butchie's Tune" | Steve Boone | 2:47 |
| 9. | "Automatic Doom" | Dan Cuddy | 2:37 |
| 10. | "Awhileaway" | Yo La Tengo | 4:03 |
| 11. | "I Can Feel the Ice Melting" | George Clinton, Tamala Lewis | 2:36 |
| 12. | "Naples" | Tim Harris | 2:45 |
| 13. | "Deeper Into Movies" | Yo La Tengo | 5:09 |
| 14. | "Somebody's In Love" | Raymond Dancer, Lonnie Tolbert | 2:06 |
| Total length: | 45:41 | ||
Charts
| Chart (2015) | Peak position |
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| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[16] | 77 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[17] | 86 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[18] | 76 |
| French Albums (SNEP)[19] | 85 |
| Portuguese Albums (AFP)[20] | 29 |
| Spanish Albums (Promusicae)[21] | 35 |
| UK Albums (Official Charts)[22] | 86 |
| US Billboard 200[23] | 96 |