Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley have been married and making music together as Yo La Tengo for over thirty years at this point, but in the spring of 1997 they recorded their magnum opus - “I Can Hear The Heart Beat As One”. They put Hoboken on the indie map around this time with legendary Hannakuh residencies at a bar called Maxwell’s and collaborated on music videos with local alt-comedy luminaries David Cross and Bob Odenkirk. Containing krauty motorik jamming, fuzzy trip-bop and noisey blasts of scuzz alongside the more traditional straightforward indie rock guitar music, I Can Hear The Heart Beat As One is generally regarded as the best Yo La Tengo record, and is the most commercially successful LP from their oeuvre.

I Can Hear The Heart Beat As One is also the 423rd Greatest Album of All Time according to Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, which means that Christopher and Liam have listened to it and now they’re going to get their autumn sweaters on and smash it up octopad-style. Featuring digressions and hot takes on everything from Mr Magoo, Girl Talk, Mr Show with Bob & David, Ghetto Superstar and The Sounds of The Sounds of Science as well as Secret Posho, Is This Emo? And Tattoo Woohoo/Tattoo Boohoo. Enjoy!