“Today Is The Day” by Yo La Tengo

Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew share the writing on "Today Is the Day", from Summer Sun, the tenth Yo La Tengo album, which Matador released on April 8, 2003. Roger Moutenot produced it; the record was cut in Nashville and mixed at Shelter Island in New York.

The album was shadowed by loss. Hubley's mother died just before the band got to work on it, and the Hubley family piano moved into their practice space in Jersey City, where it became the heart of the record's sound. The A.V. Club heard the band in a twilight mood, slipping instrumentals and one long jam between hushed, quietly winning pop songs. The cover, a double exposure shot in a New Jersey parking lot, has them bundled up in winter coats, a mix-up guitarist Kaplan jokingly pinned on the label's art department.

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