Blog: See What You Hear.com

Band meeting: Yeasayer's Anand Wilder, Ira Wolf Tuton and Chris Keating are hunched around a kitchen table to brainstorm song names. Double-entendres, commercial potential, stealing lines from poetry and revising "cheesy" lyrics are all discussed. "The Children. I mean that's a stupid title," says Wilder, reading the sheet in front of him. "It's not catchy at all," agrees Keating. Woodstock, April 2009: They've been jamming new material constantly, discussing possible comparisons, being their worst critics and best editors. It goes on in the living room, downstairs in the studio, even outside [...]