Hard - impossible, in fact (I tried) - not to respond to this. My Bloody Valentine may well have inconic status, and Loveless may indeed be one of the most mesmerising, unfathomable, unputdownable records of the last dozen years, but ...
Paul Lester in the Guardian's Friday Review of 12 March 2003 cannot in a million years get away with calling Yo La Tengo a "less talented band" (along with Placebo and "Joy Zipper", as if there were some kind of equivalence even between those three, itself a highly debatable proposition) than MBV. In an admittedly subjective field, that has got to be so objectively false as to be a jaw dropper.
Or maybe I have just taken the bait and, in the parlance of our favourite child rearing manual, he has "hooked a marlin". But that would make no sense. Would it?
