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...limited edition version of “Prisoners of Love” also features a third disc featuring outtakes and rarities of the band’s catalog throughout the years. The unreleased material is meager, made up of rambling rough cuts of the refined Yo La Tengo melodies. The rarities, on the other hand, are consistently on par with their album tracks, most notably with a jagged cover of noise legends Dead C.’s “Bad Politics” and a remix of “Autumn Sweater” by Kevin Shields that...
Last spring postal authorities traced the Connecticut credit card purchase and a string of other fraudulent transactions to a post-office box in South Plainfield, N. J. Someone was using the box to take delivery of stereo and radar-detection equipment ordered through a computerized mail-order catalog. The trail led to a young New Jersey enthusiast who used the alias "New Jersey Hack Sack" and communicated regularly with other computer owners over a loosely organized network of electronic bulletin boards. A computer search of the contents of those boards by Detective George Green and Patrolman Michael Grennier...
...when finally we opened the box, / we couldn’t find any rules / our heads were reeling with a glut of possibilities…but whither ever increasing faith / we decided to go ahead and just ignore them…so instead we went ahead / to fabricate a catalog / of unstable elements, and modicums / and particles / with non-zero total strangeness / for brief moments which amount / to nothing more than tiny fragments of a finger snap...
These lines tersely describe the band’s ars poetica of sorts—to catalog and re-combine disparate particles and fragments of language into a synthetic whole. The cut-and-pasted audio material creates a surreal sort of ‘exquisite corpse’ effect, not so much relating an explicit story as exposing an unconscious mood or psychic backdrop. In extreme cases, their own lyrical contribution is literally reduced to mere finger-snapping, as in “it never changes to stop...
...snap to, and the whole dancing-as-fighting thing...About the trial...I’m not one to say that being inappropriate makes you a criminal. I just always thought he was an asshole because of the way he bought the rights to the Beatles’ catalog...