Playing like a welcome sequel to 2006's style-hopping I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, Yo La Tengo's 16th studio album finds the New Jersey trio bringing out Farfisa solos and celebrating ongoing couplehood. On genial uptempo songs like the string-laden "If It's True," long-married duo Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan find knowing nonchalance amid niggling troubles, and they assert continued fealty on the warm fuzz-drone "More Stars Than There Are in Heaven." Elsewhere, Yo La Tengo run from pretty acoustic sketches ("When It's Dark") to the 16-minute noise freakout "And the Glitter Is Gone," mixing up disparate sounds, if for no other reason than it feels good.

“Youth Knows No Pain”

“Like on 'Youth Knows No Pain' — we are the ones that should demonstrate, because we can take it,” Likke Li said. “We can pierce ourselves, take Ecstasy, dance all night and still go to work at our McDonald's jobs.” Despite the hedonistic sentiment in the song, the Swedish singer also admitted in hindsight her youth had repercussions. “I remember when I was 18-19 and feeling that I know it all,” Li said. “I always feel that I know it all. But that song is about realizing you don’t, and reflecting, ‘Boy, if I only knew what would follow.’”