{"product_id":"jad-fair-yo-la-tengo-strange-but-true-2025-reissue","title":"Jad Fair \u0026 Yo La Tengo - Strange But True (2025 Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the ’90s, Jad Fair had five favourite bands and songwriters: Daniel Johnston, The Pastels, Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, and Yo La Tengo. It’s a good list, sure, but what’s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJad 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. He’s 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 ’90s—\u003cem\u003eStrange But True\u003c\/em\u003e, with Yo La Tengo—has been hard to find, despite its stateside release on October 20th 1998, by Matador Records.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the first time, the album is reissued on vinyl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy the time Fair played a party with Yo La Tengo in the mid-’90s, 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, \u003cem\u003eStrange But True\u003c\/em\u003e, is as wonderful, varied, and wild as some enormous lawn of native grasses. This collaborative album showcases the artists’ 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRIYL : The Magnetic Fields, Daniel Johnston, Half Japanese, Captain Beefheart, Beat Happening, The Microphones, Guided by Voices, Pavement, Silver Jews, Built to Spill\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SECRE - SECRETLY CANADIAN","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53021506404694,"sku":"MRM-01557","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mint Green LP","offer_id":53021506470230,"sku":"MRM-01558","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/358c9f16e4281f7d808ebaaf57b87b99_ac962474-d0b9-4a2e-ab3c-49a9904b9c2b.jpg?v=1775194494","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/jad-fair-yo-la-tengo-strange-but-true-2025-reissue","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}