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Popular Songs
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Studio album by Yo La Tengo
Released September 8, 2009
Recorded Early 2009, Hoboken, New Jersey and Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Genre Indie rock
Length 72:49
Language English
Label Matador
Producer Roger Moutenot
Yo La Tengo chronology
Fuckbook
(2009)		 Popular Songs
(2009)		 Fade
(2013)
Singles from Popular Songs
  1. "Here to Fall"
    Released: 28 July 2009
  2. "Periodically Double or Triple"
    Released: 4 August 2009
  3. "Avalon or Someone Very Similar"
    Released: 11 August 2009
  4. "Nothing to Hide"
    Released: 18 August 2009
  5. "When It's Dark"
    Released: 1 September 2009
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 79/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
The A.V. Club A-
BBC positive
Drowned in Sound 8/10
The Guardian 4/5 stars
musicOMH 4/5 stars
Pitchfork 7.9/10
PopMatters 7/10 stars
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars
Slant 4/5 stars

Popular Songs is the twelfth full-length album by American indie rock band Yo La Tengo, released digitally, on CD, and double LP on September 8, 2009 by record label Matador.

The band contacted conceptual artist Dario Robleto. He contributed three pieces for the album design:

Four videos were made by director John McSwain to accompany one song from the album each. In the weeks leading up to the release of the album, a new video was posted on Matador's various "partner sites" and collected on Matador's own website.[1] The first video, for "Here to Fall," was posted on Matador's own "Matablog" on July 28, 2009.

Popular Songs leaked onto the Internet on July 26; in response, Matador began streaming the album to Buy Early Get Now customers on July 28, more than a week before the stream was originally advertised to begin.

Popular Songs was released on September 8, 2009 by Matador. It is their eighth album to be given Matador's Buy Early Get Now treatment, in which it came along with a vinyl LP featuring Yo La Tengo's original score from the film Adventureland, as well as three bonus tracks as download in MP3 and FLAC. The first two of these downloads were demo versions of two album tracks and became available shortly before the release of the CD. The third download became available on December 15, 2009. The same track is also available in the iTunes Store and on the Japanese CD issue of the album.

All songs written by Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew.

String arrangements by Richard Evans

Produced by Roger Moutenot Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound


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