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The Sounds of the Sounds of Science

by Yo La Tengo

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N Klein This album is truly wonderful and helped me immensely during Lockdown 2020. Thank you for pressing this on vinyl🙏 Favorite track: How Some Jellyfish Are Born.
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zmichalka I woke up this morning to at long last see there will be a vinyl version of this album and it was an instant purchase. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. Favorite track: Hyas and Stenorhynchus.
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larry Two things got me through my thesis writing: this album and Malibu & Coke. Favorite track: The Sea Horse.
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x0m81e Sublime sounds 😌 Will we ever see a vinyl release of this? Waiting for 20 years and I've only got so many years left on this planet 😄
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    The Sounds of the Sounds of Science features 78 minutes of instrumental music by Yo La Tengo. This album contains the entire score written and performed by the band to accompany eight legendary but rarely-seen undersea documentary shorts by influential French avant-garde filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Yo La Tengo’s score, which originally debuted on stage at the San Francisco Film Festival in April 2001 with the band providing live accompaniment to the films, echoes the films’ haunting surrealist imagery, yet the music is equally evocative on its own, from the dreamy soundscapes of “Sea Urchins” and “How Some Jellyfish Are Born” to the harsher, more dissonant moods of “Liquid Crystals” and “The Love Life of The Octopus.”

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The Sounds of the Sounds of Science features 78 minutes of instrumental music by Yo La Tengo. This album contains the entire score written and performed by the band to accompany eight legendary but rarely-seen undersea documentary shorts by influential French avant-garde filmmaker Jean Painlevé. Yo La Tengo’s score, which originally debuted on stage at the San Francisco Film Festival in April 2001 with the band providing live accompaniment to the films, echoes the films’ haunting surrealist imagery, yet the music is equally evocative on its own, from the dreamy soundscapes of “Sea Urchins” and “How Some Jellyfish Are Born” to the harsher, more dissonant moods of “Liquid Crystals” and “The Love Life of The Octopus.”

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released December 4, 2020

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