Yo La Tengo Confirms 1st Album In 5 Years ‘This Stupid World’ & Shares ‘Fallout’ Single

Yo La Tengo confirmed the upcoming release of This Stupid World, the band’s first studio album in five years. The group shared the record’s lead single, “Fallout.”

The LP will arrive on February 10 through Matador Records. Yo La Tengo – Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew – self-produced This Stupid World. The trio recorded nine new songs for the follow-up to 2018’s There’s A Riot Going On. In an essay about the pending album, author/journalist Marc Masters wrote:

Another new thing about This Stupid World: it’s the most live-sounding Yo La Tengo album in years. At the base of nearly every track is the trio playing all at once, giving everything a right-now feel … There’s an immediacy to the music, as if the distance between the first pass and the final product has become more direct.

“Fallout” comes with an accompanying lyric video, watch and listen below:

Yo La Tengo also detailed 2023 tour dates in support of This Stupid World. The tour begins with a two-night run in Seattle starting on February 15. The trio then heads to Bellingham (Washington), followed by two-night runs in Portland, San Franscico and Los Angeles.

After a couple of weeks off, the tour resumes on the East coast on March 9 and a two-show stop in Carrobo, North Carolina. The tour then heads to Asheville, Nashville (two nights), Charlottesville, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and Milwaukee, with a final show on March 26 in Minneapolis. Yo La Tengo will tour Europe in April and May.

This Stupid World Tracklist

1. Sinatra Drive Breakdown
2. Fallout
3. Tonight’s Episode
4. Aselestine
5. Until It Happens
6. Apology Letter
7. Brain Capers
8. This Stupid World
9. Miles Away