Blog: Snob's Music

Few groups manage to cram as many sound and influences into their music as Brooklyn's Yeasayer .  On their third album, Fragrant World , the trio off up 11 more tracks, each bursting at the seams with the strain of their arrangements. Yeasayer lean far more heavily on R&B for this outing.  Never is anything they do straight up, so you can expect lots of twisting, warping, and stretching on tracks like "Longevity".  Slick and slightly edgy, "Blue Paper" sounds like what you would expect Prince to sound like had he been born [...]