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Strange But True
In the ā90s, Jad Fair had five favorite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. Itās a good list, sure, but whatās most remarkable about it is that, in the course of a dozen years or so, Fair made music with all of them in one form or another.
Jad Fair has been prolific for half a century now, long before the Internet could create a simultaneous and seemingly eternal archive of everything someone with his predilections made. Heās been involved in several hundred
titles, at least, many of them out-of-print on tiny labels that do not exist anymore. In fact, one of those collaborations that Fair made in the ā90sāStrange But True, with Yo La Tengoāhas been hard to find, despite its
stateside release on October 20th 1998, by Matador Records.
For the first time, the album is being reissued on vinyl by Joyful Noise and
Bar/None.
By the time Fair played a party with Yo La Tengo in the mid-ā90s, they were all friends, fans, and collaborators, having worked on or released records together. When Fair suggested they all head into the studio, the trio bit. The
result, Strange But True, is as wonderful, varied, and wild as some enormous lawn of native grasses. This collaborative album showcases the aritstsā uncanny range, bringing us back to a time when indie rock was still free to be as weird and unruly as its makers wanted it to be.
Jad Fair has been prolific for half a century now, long before the Internet could create a simultaneous and seemingly eternal archive of everything someone with his predilections made. Heās been involved in several hundred
titles, at least, many of them out-of-print on tiny labels that do not exist anymore. In fact, one of those collaborations that Fair made in the ā90sāStrange But True, with Yo La Tengoāhas been hard to find, despite its
stateside release on October 20th 1998, by Matador Records.
For the first time, the album is being reissued on vinyl by Joyful Noise and
Bar/None.
By the time Fair played a party with Yo La Tengo in the mid-ā90s, they were all friends, fans, and collaborators, having worked on or released records together. When Fair suggested they all head into the studio, the trio bit. The
result, Strange But True, is as wonderful, varied, and wild as some enormous lawn of native grasses. This collaborative album showcases the aritstsā uncanny range, bringing us back to a time when indie rock was still free to be as weird and unruly as its makers wanted it to be.
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In the ā90s, Jad Fair had five favorite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. Itās a good list, sure, but whatās most remarkable about it is that, in the course of a dozen years or so, Fair made music with all of them in one form or another.
Jad Fair has been prolific for half a century now, long before the Internet could create a simultaneous and seemingly eternal archive of everything someone with his predilections made. Heās been involved in several hundred
titles, at least, many of them out-of-print on tiny labels that do not exist anymore. In fact, one of those collaborations that Fair made in the ā90sāStrange But True, with Yo La Tengoāhas been hard to find, despite its
stateside release on October 20th 1998, by Matador Records.
For the first time, the album is being reissued on vinyl by Joyful Noise and
Bar/None.
By the time Fair played a party with Yo La Tengo in the mid-ā90s, they were all friends, fans, and collaborators, having worked on or released records together. When Fair suggested they all head into the studio, the trio bit. The
result, Strange But True, is as wonderful, varied, and wild as some enormous lawn of native grasses. This collaborative album showcases the aritstsā uncanny range, bringing us back to a time when indie rock was still free to be as weird and unruly as its makers wanted it to be.
Jad Fair has been prolific for half a century now, long before the Internet could create a simultaneous and seemingly eternal archive of everything someone with his predilections made. Heās been involved in several hundred
titles, at least, many of them out-of-print on tiny labels that do not exist anymore. In fact, one of those collaborations that Fair made in the ā90sāStrange But True, with Yo La Tengoāhas been hard to find, despite its
stateside release on October 20th 1998, by Matador Records.
For the first time, the album is being reissued on vinyl by Joyful Noise and
Bar/None.
By the time Fair played a party with Yo La Tengo in the mid-ā90s, they were all friends, fans, and collaborators, having worked on or released records together. When Fair suggested they all head into the studio, the trio bit. The
result, Strange But True, is as wonderful, varied, and wild as some enormous lawn of native grasses. This collaborative album showcases the aritstsā uncanny range, bringing us back to a time when indie rock was still free to be as weird and unruly as its makers wanted it to be.
