, which the long-running New Jersey band created during a week of socially distanced recording sessions this past spring.
The album’s five improvisational tracks are available to stream now at Yo La Tengo’s recently launchedYo La Tengo’s Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew recorded’ five compositions over a 10-day stretch from late April to early May amid the coronavirus pandemic. “If you’ve spent any time hanging out with us at our rehearsal space in Hoboken — that pretty much covers none of you — you’ve heard us playing formlessly . Most of the songs we’ve written in the last 25 years have begun that way, but often we do it for no other reason than to push away the outside world,” Kaplan said of the collection in a statement.
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