Yo La Tengo Continues To Roll Out New Music

A trend is underway as Yo La Tengo released their second song in as many days. Speaking of days, the day of the week is referenced once again in its title: “Georgia thinks it’s probably okay (Tuesday).”

Yesterday, Yo La Tengo launched a Bandcamp page and shared a droning track entitled “James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday).” While the song referenced YLT’s James McNew and Ira Kaplan, today’s track references the other member of the band — Georgia Hubley.

“Georgia thinks it’s probably okay (Tuesday)” is another drone-heavy tune that came out of the trio’s sessions at their Hoboken rehearsal space. Check out a note Ira issued yesterday to accompany “”James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday)”:

If you’ve spent any time hanging out with us at our rehearsal space in Hoboken—that pretty much covers none of you—you’ve heard us playing formlessly (he said, trying to sidestep the word “improvising”). Most of the songs we’ve written in the last 25 years have begun that way, but often we do it for no other reason than to push away the outside world.

In late April, with the outside world weighing on everybody, we determined that the three of us could assemble in Hoboken without disobeying the rules laid out by Governor Murphy, and resumed . . . “practicing” hardly describes it, because we’ve done no practicing per se, and anyway what would be practicing for . . . playing. James set up one microphone in the middle of the room in case we stumbled on something useful for the future. Instead we decided to release something we did right now.

— Ira

Stream/purchase “Georgia thinks it’s probably okay (Tuesday)” below: