Blog: Faronheit

Weeks before Yeasayer's debut album "All Hour Cymbals" was released in 2007, I couldn't contain my excitement about the band. Privileged enough to have been given an advance copy of the record, I heard it and was immediately sucked in by its offbeat and percussory charms, following it off a cliff like the pied piper himself was drawing me there. Naturally, I gushed about the album, and if memory serves me, basically called the band "the next big thing". Lo and behold, so many others wound up generally agreeing with me, but of course that also depends on your definition [...]

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