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Yo La Tengo / Built to Spill
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Time keeps moving and things changing, but that doesn’t mean we can't fight back. Yo La Tengo has raced time for nearly four decades, and they just keep winning. The trio’s latest victory is called This Stupid World, a spellbinding set of reflective songs that resist the ticking clock. This music is not so much timeless as time-defiant. “I want to fall out of time,” Ira Kaplan sings in “Fallout.” “Reach back, unwind.” Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew escape time by watching it pass, even accepting it when they must. “I see clearly how it ends / I see the moon rise as the sun descends,” they sing during the opener “Sinatra Drive Breakdown.” In the séance-like "Until it Happens,” Kaplan intones, “Prepare to die / Prepare yourself while there’s still time.” But This Stupid World is also filled with calls to reject time — bide it, ignore it, waste it. "Stay alive," he adds later in the same song. "Look away from the hands of time.”
Built to Spill is an indie rock band from Boise, ID, formed in 1992 by guitarist/vocalist Doug Martsch. In 2024 they celebrate 30 years of "There's’ Nothing Wrong with Love, their second full-length album, performing it in its entirely. For this celebration tour the band also brings the recording’s original cello player, John McMahon. Known as well for their rotating line up, Built to Spill currently counts with Melanie Radford on bass and Teresa Esguerra on drums.