The experimental rock band Yo La Tengo has launched a Bandcamp page and have shared a brand new track.
The five-minute track has the tongue-in-cheek title “James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday)”. The name is fitting with the track’s ambient feel and muddied atmospheric tone.
Ira Kaplan said of the track: “In late April, with the outside world weighing on everybody, we determined that the three of us could assemble in Hoboken without disobeying the rules laid out by Governor Murphy, and resumed . . . “practicing” hardly describes it, because we’ve done no practicing per se, and anyway what would [we] be practicing for . . . playing.
“James set up one microphone in the middle of the room in case we stumbled on something useful for the future. Instead, we decided to release something we did right now.”
Yo La Tengo’s last studio album was There’s a Riot Going On which was released in 2018. Hopefully, this atmospheric jam track is the first taster of new music to come.
