Fade
by Yo La Tengo
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Fade is ranked 7th best out of 31 albums by Yo La Tengo on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Yo La Tengo is I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One which is ranked number 473 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,607.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 12/30/2025 09:58 | TonySayers61 | 23,763 | 64/100 | |
| 10/07/2025 14:44 | JacobMullis | 734 | 88/100 | |
| 07/02/2025 06:02 |  Igtonumama | 10,791 | 63/100 | |
| 07/01/2025 04:30 |  Nacho212 | 1,881 | 72/100 | |
| 03/13/2025 14:42 | Skerns | 5,076 | 80/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 72.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.2.
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Beautiful, ethereal and resoundingly easy to relate to, Yo La Tengo continue to plug away and create some of the best indie music of our generation. Heartbreakingly beautiful at times.
buzzdainer 11/18/2017 20:27 | #201603
Yo La Tengo is one of the most consistent bands of their generation, releasing album after album of catchy indie rock that always sounds recognizably like Yo La Tengo without being overly repetitive. The subtly adventurous Fade rates as an above-average Yo La Tengo album, highlighted by the opener "Ohm," which combines many of the elements that make the band so successful at what they do: affable, jangly guitars that gradually gain in noise and intensity, while the vocal harmonies blend into a kind of mantra embodying the song's title. The result is just about as good as anything the band has ever recorded, and that's saying something.
Plenty of great songs here that got under my skin. Overall the album has a cool temperament, like a lot of Yo La Tengo's music, which can seem dispassionate and detached, the way old Brazilian bossa nova sounded in the 60s, defying the heat and torment of the historical moment, but that doesn't take away from the fact that the songs are just very very good.
The best YLT since "I Can Hear the Heart.."
Soft and Nocturne.
bojolpif71 02/01/2015 10:10 | #133539
Pas mal , mais ce groupe nous avait habitué à des productions de meilleure tenue..
Kalos 08/29/2014 21:30 | #120772
A relaxing pleasurable album with the songs disposed from the most "concrete" to the most ethereal.
The opening and the closing tracks are outstanding new classics!
ghosttomost 05/21/2014 23:04 | #112533
Proving that they are not ones to become complacent and stale, Yo La Tengo bust out Fade with some of their most interesting material to date. "Ohm" is an absolute standout and unlike anything the band has ever attempted before in their catalogue. Changing direction without losing heart is a difficult task for most bands, but YLT show once again that they are able to adapt their sound without abandoning their fundamental components. By my reckoning, this is the band's 9th consecutive great album, firmly cementing them as the greatest band on the planet.
meccalecca 03/29/2013 15:23 | #70432
I wasn't expecting this from Yo La Tengo. Fade feels like a return to the understated dreamworld of And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out. It's very relaxed, but there's enough substance to keep it floating through the end.
A very pleasant listen, but not all that memorable.
sheep21 01/06/2013 08:55 | #60305
Better than I thought it would be
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