#3250 Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On

Yo La Tengo is finally out of fire, making their most uniformly mellow, uniformly pretty record yet. Boring, cooing early songs like Shade of Blue and She May, She Might play almost as self-parody, but by the midway point everything opens into moonlit ambiance, and a creeping uncertainty fills the air. It's almost freeing. The title subverting Sly's, where we're not in the fight, we're watching it happen helpless in slow motion with a deepening numbness 4/5