So. Another week, and another celebratory Fleetwood Mac tribute comp . Though this time out it's fusty dad-rag MOJO who've brought together the likes of Julia Holter, The Besnard Lakes, and Yeasayer for a rather more provocative, sticky front-of-mag release. The latter take a faintly tribalistic run-up at Rumours opener Second Hand News that's rather more closely akin to Graceland than it is to Go Your Own Way, as Anand Wilder guides the Brooklyn troupe through an effusive, and with that ebullient tribute to just one of the record's eleven glistering highlights. More [...]
As with all forms of experimentation, every Animal Collective endeavour feels a case study of various successes and failures; of trial and error. For every Merriweather Post Pavilion there's a Fall Be Kind ; for every Leaf House a Pride And Fight. Thus the overriding sensation with their every effort concerns how capable Maryland's most noteworthy contemporary musicologists are of achieving a balance between the direct and the directionless. With ninth studio LP Centipede Hz , equilibrium isn't exactly achieved, although unquestionably some monumental feats of listenability are accomplished. [...]
Ealier today, Yeasayer came out with the following: "HEADING: PSCYVOTV FROM: YEASAYER DATE: 9:24am. Aug. 1. 2012 We have received a message that we are on the verge of embargoed information being leaked through the cracks of the digital universe. Once again an attempt to tell the story before our mouths can spit. In order to have the edge we have created PSCYVOTV standing for PREEMPTIVE SELF-COMMISSIONED YEASAYER VORSTELLUNG or TRACK VISUALIZER. [...]
Last month we brought you 'Henrietta', the ruturn of Brooklyn three-piece Yeasayer, who are following up their brilliant 2010 album Odd Blood with this year's Fragrant World . We said of 'Henrietta': "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..." Well now we have more! 'Longevity' continues the group's near perfect record for crafting wonderfully wonky RnB. There is something incredibly removed about it all, not necessarily a bad thing when you're dealing with robo [...]
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.
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