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Jan 23, 201383A set of spare, slow-building dream pop that doesn't blast like a furnace as much as it hums like a hair dryer.
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Jan 15, 201391Their quietest and most fragile album is also their most orchestrated.
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Feb 15, 201382The most direct album the band has ever assembled, Fade functions like one of the darker, LOL-averse episodes of comedian Louis C.K.’s eponymous show.
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Jan 15, 201388Fade is classic Yo La Tengo: honest, unpretentious and, above all, catchy.
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Jan 15, 201392Fade is just 10 distinctive, beautiful songs in 45 minutes meant to show their languid new peers (Real Estate, Beach House, Grizzly Bear, what have you) who's boss. It shouldn't work. It's to that roaring 20-year streak's goodwill that it does.
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Jan 14, 201381It may not herald another big day coming, but Fade is a thoroughly immersive dusk-to-dawn soundtrack to a dark night's passing.
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Jan 22, 201385Nothing seems to rattle them, and hearing that Zen-like outlook on record is immensely refreshing and inspiring.
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Jan 15, 201383Yo La Tengo may not be as daringly innovative as it once was, but, in targeting its experiments to a cohesive purpose, the band successfully fulfills Fade's grandiose scope.
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Jan 17, 201388Tortoise's John McEntire steps in for long-time producer Roger Moutenot, but any of these songs would fit perfectly on the band's last half-dozen albums.
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Feb 11, 201385Fade is vintage Yo La Tengo, but somehow gorgeously grown-up, with moments which your head will tell you sound normal, as if you have heard them before, but which make the rest of you feel contemplative and still.