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The trajectory of the somehow effete Brooklyn psych brigade known only as Yeasayer has taken more swerves than most baseballs. Début full-length All Hour Cymbals was an introspective work seamed with the expressively ethnic, though still pop-geared sensibilities of vocalist-cum-guitarist Anand Wilder, while its 2010 follow-up, Odd Blood , took the formula and twisted it beyond recognition as Chris Keating polluted an already potent mélange with an unmixed disco leaning. It heralded the trio's imminent prominence, and with that their induction into the realms of pop, popular culture, and so forth. [...]

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One of the plethora of perky joys afforded the latter-day journo is the transatlantic call. "It's sunny in New York", I'm duly informed although in London it's as dark, damp, and cold as it's seemed all year. Perhaps not quite as cold and thereby socially, as well as geographically distant as Yeasayer bassist Ira Wolf Tuton transpires to be in our opening exchanges, but still. As he'll later avow, he's done his fair share of spiels with faceless hacks, and the charting of previously untrodden ground is consequently of paramount concern to those more [...]

• Yeasayer - "Henrietta"
• Yeasayer - Reagan's Skeleton

Oh YEASAYER we love you. Not only have you just released your brand new album, Fragrant World , to worldwide critical acclaim. You’ve also decided to give away a couple of vinyls away for the loyal Purple Sneakers readers. It’s all just too much. If you haven’t had a chance to check out Yeasayer ’s latest full length, we’ve already given it the Sneakers review treatment . But just to fill you in, it passed with flying colours. In our own words, “In [...]

Just two days after dropping Fragrant World, Yeasayer brings their new sound and electric live show to Seattle.

"I was a bit perplexed by their encore," said Yannis Philippakis, singer with UK band Foals , who'd been at the Vancouver Yeasayer show (and still loved it, of course). "I thought they'd, you know, pull out the crowd pleasers." "Yeah, but you know what it's like," I said, as we had drinks afterwards at a nearby bar, "you know how eager you will be to stop playing the old songs and start playing your new album." "True," Philipakkis conceded. And that's exactly what Yeasayer did. Eight songs of 11 from their most [...]

Like Neon Indian before them, Yeasayer arrived at Jimmy Fallon's 30 Rockefeller studio with a relatively elaborate stage rig designed in conjunction with the Creators Project . It involves a number of fragmented mirrors, with lights and projections that sync to Chris Keating's MPC unit, and yet that isn't even the best addition to Yeasayer's live thing; that would be drummer Cale Parks, formerly of Aloha / BRAHMS / himself , who replaces the erstwhile, formidable percussion section of Ahmed Gallab and JayTram (both now of Sinkane ) with his own brand of polyrhythmic electro-pop [...]

The variegated lands and soundscapes – the ponds bubbling effervescent luminosity; the hills rolling globular; the blobby synths of Yeasayer be painted; no, perfumed with pop. Such is their penchant; their wholly natural wont. The logical end product of the hugely efficacious symbiosis of Chris Keating and Anand Wilder, it's once again at its best on Fragrant World as the quirky traditionalisms of the latter be intermingled with the progressive, forward-thunk songwriting squirms of the former. Rarely are two artists quite so finely attuned with one another. Lyrically, where [...]

With the release of Fragrant World, Brooklyn quintet Yeasayer yet again cast off our previously conceived notions of who we think they are.

Photos by G. (from left) Anand Wilder and Chris Keating of Yeasayer On August 15, 2012 after a pretty intense rainstorm, Brooklyn's own Yeasayer played an incredibly sold out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.  It was my first time seeing the electronic/psych-pop band and I had a good time.  For those that could not be in attendance for the band's first show in quite some time, the show was recorded and will be streamed on youtube for a limited time. [...]

Yeasayer returns with trippy visuals for a new song of synths and violins.

On August 20, 2012 Yeasayer will return to center stage with 'Fragrant World', their much anticipated followup to 20102s gorgeous 'Odd Blood'. The album promises to be weirder and darker than the pop-centric approach we last heard from the Brooklynites. As a first public offering from the upcoming record "Henrietta" starts as a swirling soundscape [...]

Yeasayer "Henrietta" If announcing the details of Brooklyn band Yeasayer 's third studio album, Fragrant World were a party, I would be showing up fashionably late. "Ben Lindbloom don't show up to no party before 11 o'clock" as I always say (in third person of course). Unfortunately you cannot be slow to the draw in announcing a highly anticipated album or you'll get shot, aka people simply go elsewhere for that information and in turn, we lose readers. [...]

Brooklyn's own Yeasayer is running through, like, a zillion and three songs at soundcheck in Vancouver.  The newie, "The Devil and the Deed" is sounding stonking. So I'm dancing around the Green room, singing along to the muffled sounds from the stage next door while photographer Kris Krüg plugs in a light and chuckles at my excitement. The band wrap up and step into our lair - a quickie photoshoot in a dull room normally reserved for the catering. Sexy, no?  "Is it someone's birthday?" Chris Keating asks. "MINE!" I yelp, grinning like a [...]

Chris Keating from Yeasayer couldn't stop telling the Vancouver crowd how much he loves the place. "The women are beautiful, the men are beautiful...okay, maybe not down on [downtrodden] East Hastings, but...". He laughs. The crowd laughs. One-third of the way into a three-weeky tour, and Keating looked relaxed. The band looked relaxed. Not as road weary as when I last saw 'em . More fluid. Funky as all get out. In other words, Yeasayer RULED. Chris fiddled knobs, bounced around in his cool trainers and traded vocals with Anand Wilder (much more [...]

Review by Michelle da Silva (@michdas) Photo by David Thai from Sasquatch! Music Festival 2011 (@david_thai) About a year after Yeasayer had played Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom, they were back on that exact same stage, headlining a tour with Chicago-based relative newbies Smith Westerns. And while Yeasayer didn't necessarily have a new album to tour, their [...]

 Been keeping my eyes on those Brooklyn boys, Yeasayer , recently. Tweets have alluded to them working hard on new songs before they head out on a Canada/US tour (which brings them my way on May 28, happy day-before-my-birthday, hoo-ha!), and this leg promises four new tracks mixed into the live set. One of them will be "The Devil and the Deed", which the band debuted on Conan last night. Anand Wilder takes over leads from Chris Keating, and the track is a serious ass-shaker, [...]

• Moby - The Day (Yeasayer Remix)

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For the first Friday night of April, the Girls & Boys party at Webster Hall played host to guest DJ sets from Chris Keating, founding member of local avant pop act Yeasayer, as well as a headlining, near-three-hour set by Questlove, the drummer from the legendary hip hop live band The Roots. It was a [...]