Happy Fall! Today’s Random Album of the Day is the Danelectro EP from Yo La Tengo. I’m a huge Yo La Tengo fan going back to 1990. Yo La Tengo is Indie Rock but they do wander into other genres and this one gets the Folktronica and Post-Rock tags too.

The bulk of this EP is chill, sweet melodies. This EP also does represent a bit of what I love about Yo La Tengo where it shifts into melodious weirdness. It sort of does this very gradually with peak weirdness hitting on the last song.

Still, overall not my favorite Yo La Tengo. It’s enjoyable but not my most favored of their stuff. For one it is all instrumental with lots of sampling which is not my favorite thing. I also like where they ebb and flow between chill and totally not chill. And this EP is mostly on the chill end of things – so I miss that bouncing around bit. Also less guitar and Ira’s guitar is just great.

Rating: 8.8

Favorite Track(s): “Danelectro 3” opens it up with melodious and sweet. And very chill. Followed by the even more chill “Danelectro 2”. We get a little sampling on “Danelectro 1 (Q-Unique remix)”. But remains chill. “Danelectro 3 (Kit Clayton remix)” gets a bit intense – in a good way. Still chill overall. Finally we get the weirdness on “Danelectro 2” which I most like.

Keep or Trash: Keep. Even if not my favorite Yo La Tengo – it remains to be Yo La Tengo and the completionist in me must have it.