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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 "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 [...]
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This post is a "QuickPick". QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that's sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it's so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I "star" it in Gmail and then go back and listen to it a day later. If it's still as good as it was a day before then it goes up on the site, but sometimes I get backlogged and can't get [...]
Artist : Yeasayer Hometown : Brooklyn, USA Members : Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, Anand Wilder, Jason Trammell, Ahmed Gallab Formed : 2006 Released : 2010 Genre : Experimental Rock/Psychedelic Pop Label : Secretly Canadian Singles : "Ambling Alp" , "O.N.E", "Madder Red" [...]
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 [...]
Just happened to come across this album by Yeasayer which just "dropped" today in music stores/ iTunes . Its going to be one of those bands that is getting alot of buzz these days. I will never see live in concert during my lifetime and skip Ottawa. Please bear with me since I don't know that much of this band. Did some research on them on Wikipedia . That Odd Blood is their second album. That the band is from Brooklyn, New York and that their music has been [...]
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