Yo La Tengo / Built to Spill (performing There’s Nothing Wrong with Love at Pioneer CourthouseSquare
Schedule
Wed Aug 14 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Pioneer Courthouse Square | Portland, OR
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On Sale: Friday, February 23rd at 10am PT🎟️ https://bit.ly/YLT-BTS2024
This Event is All Ages and General Admission
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Yo La Tengo
Time keeps moving and things keep changing, but that doesn’t mean we can't fight back. Yo La Tengo have raced time for nearly four decades and, to my ears, 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.”
Part of how Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew escape time is 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 opener “Sinatra Drive Breakdown.” In the séance-like "Until it Happens,” Kaplan plainly 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.”
Of course, times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band has often worked with outside producers and mixers. They made This Stupid World all by themselves. And their time-tested judgment is both sturdy enough to keep things to the band’s high standards, and nimble enough to make things new.
Another new thing about This Stupid World: it’s the most live-sounding Yo La Tengo album in years. At the base of nearly every track is the trio playing all at once, giving everything a right-now feel. Take the signature combination of hypnotic rhythm and spontaneous guitar on “Sinatra Drive Breakdown,” or the steady chug of “Tonight’s Episode,” a blinkered tunnel of forward-moving sound. There’s an immediacy to the music, as if the distance between the first pass and the final product has become more direct.
Built to Spill (performing There’s Nothing Wrong with Love)
Built to Spill is an indie rock band from Boise, ID, formed in 1992 by guitarist/vocalist Doug Martsch.
In September 2022 they released their most recent album, through SubPop - "When the Wind Forgets Your Name".
Known as well for its rotating line up, the band currently counts with Melanie Radford on bass and Teresa Esguerra on drums.
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Where is it happening?
Pioneer Courthouse Square, 701 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97204-1410, United States,Portland, OregonEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
