Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley have been married to each other and making music together since before many of the artists on this list were born, and there’s an intuitive comfort to Yo La Tengo’s 13th proper studio album. Their voices curl up together like a middle-aged couple at the end of a long day, and Kaplan’s guitars swell up in the exact places where you know, and hope, they will. But that unforced ease doesn’t mean they’re stagnating. On Fade, they work with Chicago post-rock producer John McEntire for the first time, and the motorik spirals and impressionistic string-figures of songs like “Ohm” and “Before We Run” show a band still finding new ways to push itself. Fade is an unrelentingly pleasant album, sure, but in no way is it a boring one. –Tom [LISTEN]