psychedelic Yeasayer

Man I've been meaning to check out some of Yeasayer's more orthodox releases since I fell in love with Tightrope on the criminally under-appreciated (at least here on Neo) Dark Was The Night Compilation and here I find myself being spoonfed youtube vids haha. The vocals on Tightrope are so refreshing raw it's like shit, this is what indie rock should probably sound like rather than emotionless murmuring by pretentious frontmen that can't really sing.



2080 is clearly more of the same soulful indie rock that shows off just how good the band play off each other especially the vocals and percussion. Wait For The Summer is a little weaker and like Dudeguy says, probably suffers from over-complication and experimentalism for the sake of it. Definitely need to get my hands on their album...

Oh and tipsy metro acapella gigs ftw.

<3 Yeasayer!

I gotta say Wobbz, that DJ Rupture remix really isn't doing it for me. I guess the Memory Tapes mix is a much more tolerable version than Rupture's but to be honest neither match the sheer genius of the original mix.

Youtube vid for the lazy:

I warned you. I told you about the video teaser.

quote Moonset

Btw, ONE >> Ambling Alp

Agreed. O.N.E is a *bleep*ing triumph of a pop song. I love that they've held on to all their quirkiness, the odd synth loops and other-worldly percussive elements yet somehow managed to produce one of the purest, most accessible and more importantly enjoyable pop songs from either end of the indie/mainstream spectrum in 2010 so far. I gotta agree with crick noise in that as an album it does lack consistency but when the highs e.g. Ambling Alp, I Remember, O.N.E are this good it doesn't really matter all that much.

And who said freak-folk hipsters didn't have any holiday spirit:

yeasayer.net/xmas

Enjoy!