And Then Nothing Turned...

Yo La Tengo

Product Details

• Vinyl (January 22, 2002)
• Original Release Date: February 22, 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Matador Records
• ASIN: B00004C4OB
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (96 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #179,152 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Yo La Tengo's most consistently brilliant record is also their quietest, as husband and wife Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley turn the volume down while exploring decidedly grown-up relationship themes. It's definitely not the shoe-gazer-tinged barrage of guitars they've supplied in the past, but the silences here speak louder than an amplified guitar ever could. --Matthew Cooke --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Description
Full title - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. Tenth album from American indie act. Digipak. 2000 release. Matador Records. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE VERY BEST GET EVEN BETTER, March 20, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Audio CD)

Although it cannot be said for many, many bands, many, like fine vintage wine, just seem to get better with age. The magic threesome that is Yo La Tengo (married couple Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley and rotund bass master James McNew) return with what could very well be their finest CD. A truly perfect album that dishes out songs about love, loss, pain, joy, distress, loneliness, and suffering. Songs that echo with pleasant and vicious guitar licks, kick mud in your mamma's face drumming, and absolutely gorgeous singing. The haunting opener "Everyday", the bouncy "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House", the brilliant cover of "You Can Have It All", the savagely beautiful "Cherry Chapstick" w/ a guitar solo that kicks you while your down, the depressingly gorgeous "Tears Are In Your Eyes" and the dreamy, "Night Falls On Hoboken" are just a handful of the magnificent songs that encompass this excellent album. This is one fan who couldn't get enough of "I Can Hear The Heart" and who has made a new space in his CD player for this one. Also, if you haven't checked out YLT live, do yourself a favor, they are tourning right now (3/00) so go see a show, you will not be dissapointed.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars endless love, February 24, 2000

By	leopold bloom "poldy" (the mighty palouse) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Audio CD)

This is easily the most lo-fi, acoustic effort of the last four YLT discs: softly ticking drum machines, spacy guitar atmospherics, not-so-sudden organs and whispery vocals are the m.o. here. One exception: "Cherry Chapstick," which sounds like "Sugarcube" injected with a healthy dose of Sonic Youth's "Teenage Riot"--and it's amazing. The album starts off slowly, almost shyly, with the ethereal "Everyday," but by the third or fourth track, it becomes all-consuming. This is the most seamless YLT since "Painful"--even after the 17th minute of "Night Falls on Hoboken" (and the 77th minute of the disc), you'll want to do it all over again. (I have nothing against "I Can Hear the Heart," but come on, dear reader, tell the truth, you don't always want to sit through "Spec Bebop" in its entirety.)

How does it stack up to previous YLT records? Who cares? Beginning with "Painful," they have produced 4 of the most intelligent records of the last ten years. And to top it all off, Ira and Georgia are still in love: I'm surprised the "family values" ideologues don't jump on the bandwagon--YLT might just make marriage cool again.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Night music, February 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (Audio CD)

Quiet, meditative, intimate and lovely. Pefect music to listen with the lights down low. Yo La Tengo has managed to totally redefine themselves while staying true to form. And damn it all, they've gone and created another lo-fi masterpiece again. Great stuff.