Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

This Stupid World is the seventeenth studio album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released in February 2023 via Matador Records.

Yo La Tengo (often abbreviated as YLT) formed in New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the line-up has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, piano, vocals), Georgia Hubley (drums, piano, vocals), and James McNew (bass, vocals). In 2015, original guitarist

Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the quintessential critics' band" and maintains a strong cult following. Though they mostly play original material, Yo La Tengo is renowned for its encyclopedic repertoire of cover songs both in live performance and on record.

This Stupid World’ is the most live-sounding Yo La Tengo album in years. Times have changed for Yo La Tengo as much as they have for everyone else. In the past, the band have often worked without side producers and mixers. In their latest effort,the first full-length in five years, ‘This Stupid World’ was created all by themselves.

Their time-tested judgment is both sturdy enough to keep things to the band’s high standards, and nimble enough to make things new.

At the base of nearly every track is the trio playing all at once, giving everything a right-now feel. There’s an immediacy to the music, as if the distance between the first pass and the final product has become more direct.

This double album 2LP record set is an indies record stores limited edition on blue coloured vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with printed inner sleeves, pressed in the UK via Matador.