Album Review: Sleepless Night [EP] by Yo La Tengo

How many Yo La Tengo deep cuts did you enjoy for years before realizing they were covers? If you've been a fan for long enough, chances are it's a few. The trio's ability to morph into a kind of living covers jukebox is nearly as legendary as their propensity for making non-Jews care about Hanukkah, and if you always thought "You Can Have It All" was an original, you're not the only one--it's a testament to the band's knack for taking any unsung gem and rearranging it until it's unmistakably a Yo La Tengo song. Sleepless Night, the band's second standalone EP of 2020, finds them resuming this curatorial role, weaving together covers as unlikely as a 1940s blues oddity and as recognizable as a Bob Dylan classic alongside one stray original.

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