links for 2009-06-05

It's like indie-90s-revival-day over at Matador and Merge: "On September 8th, Merge Records will release In Prism, the first studio album from Polvo since 1997’s Shapes."

Download the first MP3! "The new Yo La Tengo CD/2XLP/digital album ‘Popular Songs” (OLE 856-1,2) could be the bravest musical statement to date in a career full of ‘em… [and] finds the trio of Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan and James McNew at the height of their creative powers, fashioning an epic work that’s cooly confident as it is wildly adventurous."