Yo La Tengo
Genius plus Love 2LP vinyl

Back again, this classic Yo La Tengo anthology of early rarities, outtakes and alt versions was originally released in 1996, and features covers of John Cale, The Velvet Underground, Wire, Daniel Johnston, The Ramones and Beat Happening. Issued between 'Electr-O-Pura' and 'I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One', 'Genius + Love =' draws a line underneath the Hoboken band's early career, fleshing out their canon with a few vital instrumentals and covers that remind us exactly where they came from. 'Demons' is one of the album's most notable inclusions, thanks to its appearance on the soundtrack to Mary Harron's 'I Shot Andy Warhol', where Yo La Tengo were cast as a Velvets-style rock band, but there's plenty more where that came from. Their cover of 'Speeding Motorcycle' includes a literally phoned in vocal from Daniel Johnston himself, and their version of the Velvets' 'I'm Set Free' - a live favorite that's also been tackled by Beck and Thom Yorke, and Brian Eno - is proof that they were picking up just where Lou Reed and co left off.

NEW / Released in 1996 / Reissue 2025

Tracklist:

A1 Evanescent Psychic Pez Drop

A2 Demons

A3 Fog Over Frisco

A4 Too Late

A5 Hanky Panky Nohow

A6 Something To Do

A7 Ultra-Powerful Short Wave Radio

A8 Up To You

A9 Somebody's Baby

B1 Walking Away From You

B2 Artificial Heart

B3 Cast A Shadow

B4 I'm Set Free

B5 Barnaby, Hardly Working

B6 Some Kinda Fatigue

B7 Speeding Motorcycle

C1 Nutricia

C2 Her Grandmother's Gift

C3 From A Motel 6 # 2

C4 Gooseneck Problem

C5 Surfin With The Shah

C6 Ecstasy Blues

C7 Too Much, Part 1

C8 Blitzkrieg Bop

C9 One Self: Fish Girl

C10 Enough

D1 Drum Solo

D2 From A Motel 6 # 1

D3 Too Much, Part 2

D4 Sunsquashed