YO LA TENGO - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass 2LP live which spawned such musical touchstones

which spawned such musical touchstones as the Stooges

it expands upon the tentative manoeuvres they’d undertaken with the previous year’s Thriller (1997) and gestures confidently towards its brassy successor

the John Birch Society

The most outrageously (fake) punk band any of these jokers have played in and the most bonkers record Aarght has released so far

With the lo-fi immediacy of the Sonics

YO LA TENGO - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass 2LP live which spawned such musical touchstonesGatefold sleeve. On and on they go always picking at the frays at the edge of their sound pushing it in this direction and that. This is their eleventh album, released in 2006. As has become their habit it contains a mixture of soft and pure ballads, guitar wig outs, cover songs and slight explorations into jazz. We'd expect nothing else from this justly lauded Hoboken trio.