Maybe 1995 wasn't such a hot year for music. That's okay, it's just a foggy memory now. Of course, cutting through the mediocrity like a guitar-shaped Batsignal was Electr-o-Pura, the seventh album from Yo La Tengo. The album is full of both pop delicasies ("Tom Courtenay") and driving jams ("Blue Line Swinger"). Pick it up. It's electr-o-licious.

Harold Check