Name: There’s A Riot Going On
Brand: Yo La Tengo

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ole-1166-1

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Colour

black

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-03-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Beggars Group

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

744861116615

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Artist

Yo La Tengo

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Matador

One of the best parts of working at a store like Rough Trade is the constant exposure to a variety of music of different rhythms, textures, tones and melodies. Our staff and their eclectic tastes are constantly adding to this musical stew, and it wouldn't be Rough Trade without them. Below is a list of our staff's #1 picks - covering everything from Dead Can Dance to Panopticon, Tirzah to The Other Years. Click on their names to see their full Top 10 list:

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/adrian-albums-of-the-year-2018">Adrian</a> - Dead Can Dance - Dionysus

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/craig-albums-of-the-year-2018">Craig</a> - Caroline Rose - Loner

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/dennis-albums-of-the-year-2018">Dennis</a> - Mick Harvey &amp; Christopher Richard Barker - The Fall and Rise of Edgar Bourchier and the Horrors of War

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/dima-albums-of-the-year-2018">Dima</a> - Kikagaku Mayo - Masana Temples

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/ed-zed-s-albums-of-the-year-2018">Ed Zed</a> - Lolina - The Smoke

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/george-albums-of-the-year-2018">George</a> - Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/hafi-albums-of-the-year-2018">Hafi</a> - Bunny Michael - Afterlyfe EP

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/ian-albums-of-the-year-2018">Ian</a> - Tirzah - Devotion

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/jen-albums-of-the-year-2018">Jen</a> - Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton - Music and Poetry of the Kesh

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/jill-albums-of-the-year-2018">Jill</a> - Phosphorescent - C'est La Vie

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/kris-albums-of-the-year-2018">Kris</a> - Panopticon - The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness - Part 2

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/lio-albums-of-the-year-2018">Lio</a> - Powell Peralta - The Search For Animal Chin Soundtrack

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/mel-albums-of-the-year-2018">Mel</a> - Beak&gt; - &gt;&gt;&gt;

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/nathan-albums-of-the-year-2018">Nathan</a> - Khruangbin - Con Todo El Mundo

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/sarah-albums-of-the-year-2018">Sarah</a> - Florence and The Machine - High As Hope

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/ski-albums-of-the-year-2018">Ski</a> - Chris Carter - Chemistry Lessons Volume 1

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/stewart-albums-of-the-year-2018">Stewart</a> - Heilung - Lifa

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/tiffany-albums-of-the-year-2018">Tiffany</a> - Drinks - Hippo Lite

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/tommy-albums-of-the-year-2018">Tommy</a> - The Other Years - The Other Years

<a href="https://www.roughtrade.com/us/zach-albums-of-the-year-2018">Zach</a> - Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still

Albums of the Year - Staff Picks 2018

Their first proper full-length since 2013’s Fade. Available on Limited Double Orange Vinyl.

There's a Riot Goin’ On is an expression of freedom and sanity and emotional expansion, a declaration of common humanity as liberating as it is soft-spoken. There's a riot going on. You don't need me, or Yo La Tengo, to tell you that. These are dark times, in our heads as much as in the streets. It's easy to lose contact with the ground, flying through endless banks of storm clouds day after day. Confusion and anxiety intrude into daily life and cause you to lose your compass. There are times that call for anthems, something to lift you out of your slump and put fire in your feet. And then there are times when what is indicated is a balm, a sound that will wrap around you and work out the knots in your neck. While there's a riot going on, Yo La Tengo will remind you what it's like to dream. The sound burbles and washes and flows and billows. If records were dedicated to the cardinal elements, this one would be water. There are shimmery hazes, spectral rumbles, a flash of backward masking, ghostly flamingos calling "shoo-bop shoo-bop." You are there. And even if your mind is not unclouded--shaken, misdirected, out of words and out of time - you can still float, ride the waves of an ocean deeper than your worries, above the sound and above the Sound.

For Yo La Tengo this is a slow-motion action painting, and Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, and James McNew did it all themselves, in their rehearsal studio, with no outside engineer (John McEntire later did the mix). They did not rehearse or jam together beforehand; they turned on the recorder and let things coalesce. Songs came together over long stretches, sometimes as much as a year going by between parts. You'd never guess this, since the layers are finessed with such a liquid brush. You'd imagine most of the songs had sprung forth whole, since they will enter your head that way. Within two listens you will be powerless to resist the magnetic draw of Shades of Blue, will involuntarily hear She May, She Might on your internal jukebox first thing in the morning and Let's Do It Wrong late at night. While there's a riot going on you will feel capable of bobbing through like a cork. In 1971, when the nation appeared to be on the brink of violently coming apart, Sly and the Family Stone released There's a Riot Goin’ On, an album of dark, brooding energy. Now, under similar circumstances, Yo La Tengo have issued a record with the same name but with a different force, an album that proposes an alternative to anger and despair.