This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley are that rarest of rock pairings — spouses who actually get along.
And like a lot of happily marrieds, the longer they’re together, the less they need to say — each one already knows what the other is thinking. After more than a decade sharing a personal and professional life, Yo La Tengo’s guitarist hubby and drummer wife artfully celebrate that hard-won state of telepathic bliss on their beautiful 10th album. Of course, also like a lot of married couples, they don’t party like they used to. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out continues along the quiter, gentler path set on 1997’s I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. Kicking the volume and tempo down a notch, Kaplan and Hubley take a long, loving look at relationships and romance, their words floating by on gentle, post-psychedelic waves of guitar and lulling keyboards. Fans of the white light/white heat guitar abuser of their early work be warned; only the Sonic Youthy art-grunge of Cherry Chapstick comes close. The rest of the time, you can practically hear their two hearts beating in unison.
