Yo La Tengo: May I Sing With Me (1992)

I think there's a general consensus among Yo La Tengo fans that they became a truly great band with their mid-90s trio of insanely great indie albums -- Painful, Electr-o-pura , and I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One . But it was their preceding record that really kicked the band into high gear, where they established the blueprint for much of their later work (at least in part heralded by the arrival of bassist James McNew, who, after several albums of revolving bassists, would complete up the b...