Coming back

• Josh blog is back: Ideas for an unwritten review of the new Tom Waits CDs
• Two years after their last album Yo La Tengo released the underwater movie soundtrack The Sounds of the Sounds of Science recently. You can only order it via their website for $10 plus shipping. It consists of eight instrumental tracks to eight short films on underwater life by Jean Painlevé. The evolution of Yo La Tengo from Post Paisley Underground to noisy drone rock and then to the warm and mellow songs on And then Nothing... seems to have come to a logical end here. Yesterday morning I tried to listen to the new CD in the car but realised that it is definitely evening or night music. Too slow, too impressionistic, too soft (except the noisy "Liquid Crystals") in the morning. Some tracks are close to ambient but the drums always play an important role though Hubley's drumming is refrained and unobtrusive. When you think about it it seems quite a challenge to make music for a film on a world of silence. I think Yo La Tengo have succeeded here. The album is still growing on me. Yo La Tengo played the score live on tour last year while the films were screened. A live review is here. The album is reviewed in the Dusted Magazine. A long interview with the band about the project in the Independent Weekly.