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Yo La Tengo: City Varieties, Leeds

Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 7 July 2003

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT with Yo La Tengo. The Hoboken veterans' 11 albums cover bouncy surf-pop, frazzled Velvet Underground noise and jazz doodling. They're seen as an indie obscurity, yet their music features in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Simpsons. After almost 20 years, they've suddenly captured a decent following — probably as a result of 2000's raved-over And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out rather than The Sounds of the Sounds of Science, their instrumental concept album about fish.

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