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Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Fever to Tell" (UK import)

I think everyone wa cautiously optimistic about this album, after the fantastic "Bang" and self-titled EPs (which oddly weren't included here). The first half of the album follows these EPs with a similar brand of frenetic yelping and moaning to a rock rollercoaster, but what I didn't expect was to find such heartfelt Patti Smith and Velvet Underground *gasp* singing on the end of the album, and in my highlight, 'Maps'.

Yo La Tengo "Summer Sun" (UK import)

Did they always sound like this, or am I remembering them differently? I was thrown a bit offguard by how low-key and understated this all is. More Low than Yo La Tengo, really.