Tagged: yeasayer + oddblood

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. [...]

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

When I first heard Fragrant World , the newest record from Yeasayer , I wondered if it would be as impressive as Odd Blood .  It took me a few spins, but eventually, I found it's progression and warmth more than enjoyable, so I was really looking forward to their live presentation of the new material at Stubb's on Thursday night. Read on for my thoughts on the evening, and the great photo set of B. Gray. [...]

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 [...]

During a recent conversation I had playfully discussing the kind of music that you would want to hear as you “die on the dancefloor”, we were mentioning a few bands, but none came as close to the harrowing, oft-brazen sounds of the latest from the Brooklyn trio, Yeasaye r . With their patented off-kilter percussion and saturated bass, they have created an album for the end-times, without much preamble. Their previous records- the freak-folk  All Hour Cymbals , and the playful  Odd Blood - poised them as an experimental, [...]

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 [...]

As the Summer progressed it became evident as more albums were announced that August, September, and October would be three of the most impressive months for new albums in recent years. For me to list them all would take too much time, but close to the top of this list is Yeasayer 's highly-anticipated third album Fragrant World , an album with a lot of ground to cover if it's to match the critical acclaim of its predecessor Odd Blood . [...]

Never judge a book by its cover. Or an album by its artwork, for that matter. The album sleeve for Yeasayer ’s third LP Fragrant World , depicting some intangible, abstract shape, is devoid of colour, almost bland – perhaps an intended contrast to the intensely colourful psychedelic “vignettes” the band have been using to promote their latest singles – but the album certainly isn’t. Those familiar with the band’s previous records will perceive a significant push towards a much trippier direction with this one, which has resulted in a noticeable change in sound from the [...]

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 are back! The band is set to release their new album 'Fragrant World' on 20 August 2012 (Mute Records), the follow up to 2010’s master piece 'Odd Blood'. The new album, produced by Yeasayer, is seething with sonics that construct eleven outstanding tracks that act together and also in a solo existence. Yeasayer have produced something that sounds foreign at first, but [...]

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. [...]

The band's name has become an odd bit of wordplay recently as fans of Yeasayer have been saying "yea" quite a bit for the last 24 hours. Why? Because Yeasayer has finally given us something new to sink our teeth into. Am I crazy about it? No. Is it along the same line as previous Yeasayer material? For the most part yes... and for that reason it is good (most certainly not bad), but it is a little less hopeful than Odd Blood and a smidgen funkier. Listen to that bass line, it's gotta [...]

Yeasayer's 2010 album, Odd Blood , was a sensation. Such a sensation in fact that we named it the 5th best album of the year . We have no idea whether this will be on the forthcoming album. We don't even have any official word that there is a forthcoming album. All we know is that 'Henrietta' was recently shipped to those on the bands' mailing list. It's a pretty icy pop song, cold slabs of synth and chilled melodies sit alongside beats. It's very good to have them back.

    ¡Yeasayer está de regreso! Después de un par de años sin tener música nueva de ellos, los de Brooklyn nos presentan "Henrietta", rola que al parecer repartieron a sus fans mandándoles CDs con la canción. Escúchenla a continuación.

Listen to Yeasayer 's new song "Henrietta" below. After a couple of years with no new music to their name, Yeasayer have returned in rather unorthodox fashion. Members of the band's mailing list received a CD today that contained this brand new track "Henrietta" , one that they've been playing live for a while, and one they've been hinting at on Twitter , and if it's a taste of what's to come from the band it's a slight change from the bubbling, maddening, soaring [...]

¡Paren todo lo que están haciendo que Yeasayer ya está trabajando en su próxima producción! Sí, la banda que nació en Brooklyn hace poco más de cinco años, después de haber Odd Blood que pienso que se trata de una de las mejores producciones del 2010, ya comenzó a trabajar en lo que será su próximo álbum. La idea detrás de las declaraciones que anduvieron dando es entrar al estudio durante el verano . Todo esto surgió porque la agrupación, que está actualmente [...]

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Yeasayer wrote on their Facebook page yesterday that they'd be performing a new track on Conan O'Brian last night. Of course an upstanding citizen ripped the video, I ripped the audio and here it is for your enjoyment. "Devil And The Deed" isn't the best track that we've ever heard from Yeasayer but it's also not the worst. Anand Wilder takes the lead on this particular track with his quivering vocals. What keeps this track from really taking of its inability to break away from the same repetitive beat structure. There's no real bridge in the song [...]

• Yeasayer - Devil And The Deed

Seems like it has been ages since we first heard the wonderful Odd Blood (It was January 2010, which was rather a long time ago now, pre-ash clouds). But the American group are still touring said album, even though we have all moved on to the sophomore ash cloud at [Read more]

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