Yo La Tengo "Old Joy" Soundtrack Transparent Pink LP (2025)

Details: Yo La Tengo "Old Joy" Soundtrack Transparent Pink LP (2025, Mississippi Records). New stock, sealed.

Description: "In Kelly Reichardt’s 2006 drama Old Joy, a shot of a small town’s lights disappearing into the black cloak of the Cascadian forest says as much as anything that comes from the lips of its two protagonists, played by Daniel London and Will Oldham. They’re old friends who haven’t seen each other in years, one settling into domestic life and the other still on the hippie trail, and Reichardt doesn’t ask the men to fuss and fight to show them drifting away from each other and into their respective corners of middle age. Instead, she allows the seemingly limitless expanse of the Oregon landscape to stand in for the distance between the men as they drive deep into the Cascades on a camping trip. If there’s anything explicitly underlining the loneliness of the two men’s situation, it’s the soundtrack, recorded by Yo La Tengo with veteran session guitarist Smokey Hormel."

Grade: M (new stock)

TRACK LISTING:

01. Leaving Home
02. Getting Lost
03. Path to Springs
04. Driving Home
05. End Credits
06. Leaving Home - Alternate Version