Album · Yo La Tengo
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One by Yo La Tengo
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is an album by Yo La Tengo, released in 1997. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Autumn Sweater”, on 5 lists with a best position of #174.
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, Yo La Tengo's eighth album, came out on Matador on April 22, 1997, and it's the Hoboken trio of Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew throwing the doors wide open. Roger Moutenot produced it at House of David in Nashville, and the guitar-pop of Electr-O-Pura gets stretched in every direction: bossa nova, krautrock grooves, electronic textures.
The mood is mostly melancholy, and the songs swing between tiny, fragile ballads and long, open-ended squalls of dissonance. "Autumn Sweater" is a hushed, shy heartbeat of a song, "Sugarcube" is sweet fuzz-pop, and their cover of "Little Honda" roars. All three were singles. It became the first Yo La Tengo album to chart, reaching number 19 on Billboard's Heatseekers list, and critics lined up behind it; it's widely rated the best thing the critics' favorite band ever made.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Autumn Sweater | 5 | #174 | – | 2019–2023 | |
| 2 | Sugarcube | 1 | #439 | – | 2019 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.