SONG OF THE DAY

BEANBAG - YO LA TENGO
I don't really know how you smash a beanbag chair (they're kinda smashed to begin with), but according to these lyrics, it's possible. This is the kind of breezy, trombone-enriched pop track Yo La Tengo excels at creating. Piano on the eighth notes, slightly fuzzy bass, simple drumming, a bucket of "la-la"'s spilled all over the chorus, and a sorta stormy bridge that threatens all the sunshine but never totally obscures it. Ira Kaplan's gentle vocal makes lines like, "I've spent my life trying to understand/ Just how my life got to where I am" go down easy. And that trombone melody is seriously great. After listening to them murder all those classics for WFMU, it's nice to hear them back at their own material, sounding carefree and full of life.

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