- Audio CD (April 8 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Select Distributions
- ASIN: B00008GEKS
- Other Editions: LP Record
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #51,238 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Beach party tonight |
| 2. Little eyes |
| 3. Nothing but you and me |
| 4. Season of the shark |
| 5. Today is the day |
| 6. Tiny birds |
| 7. How to make a baby elephant float |
| 8. Georgia vs Yo La Tengo |
| 9. Don't have to be so sad |
| 10. Winter a go go |
| 11. Moonrock mambo |
| 12. Let's be still |
| 13. Take care |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
Any album with Summer Sun as its title and "Beach Party Tonight" as the opening track has to be the soundtrack of tanned flesh, cold beer, and killer waves, right? Not if it’s the product of three New Jersey bohos who know, from personal experience or their record collections, that summer is also the place to find surfers afraid of the water and sun-poisoned girls afraid of going home alone, again. Although not quite as cohesive or instantly captivating as the band’s 2000 breakthrough, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out, Summer Sun is crafted from a similar hushed and hypnotic mold. Most of the 13 songs are built on a simple foundation of lo-fi guitar, bass, and brushed drums, then finished off with swirling horns, insistent piano figures, or organ. Especially good are the Pet Sounds-like pocket symphony "Tiny Birds," the beat-groove-powered "Moonrock Mambo," and the album-closing cover of Big Star’s "Take Care." This last song is re-imagined as a country lament with pleading pedal-steel guitar and singer Georgia Hubley sounding like Nico fronting a lounge band on the boardwalk of a beach town headed toward post-Labor Day oblivion. Ah, summer. --Keith Moerer
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Figure tutélaire du rock indépendant américain, grand brouilleur de pistes musicales, Yo La Tengo avait donné l'impression d'avoir trouvé sa voie avec And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000), album apaisé et hypnotique, serti de merveilles alanguies. On s'en réjouira, c'est bien le même sillon que creuse, en 2003, Summer Sun, onzième opus du groupe qui vient confirmer sa forme éclatante, quasiment vingt ans après ses débuts. Les points forts de Yo La Tengo sont ici saillants : pureté de l'écriture, richesse des orchestrations mais économie d'effets, et surtout une incroyable variation des textures musicales que la récente focalisation du groupe sur la lenteur n'a pas atténuée. Des phases purement extatiques comme le "Beach Party Tonight" d'ouverture, des notes de piano en apesanteur ("Nothing But You and Me"), des guitares slide ("Today Is the Day"), des trompettes fantomatiques ("Let's Be Still") et cette fameuse rythmique métronomique peuplent cet univers féerique aux contours diffus. Ce soleil d'été, chaud et irradiant, nous prodiguera encore longtemps ses bienfaits. --Fabrice Privé
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Summer Sun - Not for the Meek!,
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This review is from: Summer Sun (Audio CD)
This is the type of album that grows on you the more you listen to it, and you MUST be in a particular mood. I best enjoyed listening to this in a darkened room late at night, a fizzy gin & tonic in my hand and candles glowing on the fireplace mantle. Mellow, downtempo, it's more like a soft, warm rain then summer sun, but don't let that dissuade you - there are some beautiful songs on this album, with fascinating little trips and melodies.The best song by far on this album is "Don't have to be so sad" which immediately captures the mood and is a welcome addition to any ambient groove playlist on your ipod, or whatever it is you use to chill out, on the beach, in the summer sun.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Uninspired,
By A Customer
This review is from: Summer Sun (Audio CD)
This CD is bland and unispired for the most part. It seems as though YLT has traded in the pop/distortion style of Electr-O-Pura and I Can Hear The Heart...for a slower/minimalist style that is dull and forgetable. Hopefully they will return to the more uptempo stuff they used to make.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Where to go from here,
By Jo Conley (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Summer Sun (Audio CD)
How you react to this album will depend on the direction you want Yo La Tengo to go. In previous albums (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out) they refined their vision to a specific perfection -- a wall-of-noise, wallpapered with worn velvet and nostalgia-inducing polaroids. After experimenting with covers of Sen Ra's Nuclear War, they have kept the murmured vocals over wash of sound, and yet start to transition. It's as if they've gotten ever so slightly bored of holy matrimony with Autumn Sweater, but they're not sure yet if they want to find a mistress. Georgia-vs-YLT is a funky drum-driven interlude Moonrock Mambo has lyrics such as "like Cinderella's other shoe, i just wanna be next to you," glibly ironic enough that you'd expect to find them in a Stephin Merritt Magnetic Fields song rather than YLT. Fans who want nothing but the die-hard Yo La Tengo sound, will be satisfied with the first seven tracks, including my favorite, "Tiny Birds." But maybe it's because past albums hit the spot so darn well, that I don't let myself fall for any different-sounding songs by the same group. But what sorta curmudgeon am I, to want them to stick to a successful formula, while allowing lesser artists to experiment?
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