Yeasayer

With all the good bands hailing from Brooklyn, Yeasayer have been pretty overlooked and underrated since their debut in 2007 with their LP All Hours Cymbals, but I've come back to them a lot more than bands that critics have pushed on me in the time since. They've steadily gained my respect and other followers the old fashioned way: by writing good songs and outperforming the over-hyped bands they've played with (MGMT, namely). Their psychedelic sound takes as much from world music as it does from traditional rock/reggae/R&B/etc, and their album benefits greatly from the dynamic, never stagnating. They have chanting melodies, polyrhythmic drumming and and overall tribal feel, and they can bust out on a wide variety of instruments. Their lyrics are well sung and well written as well:

"It's a fresh spring, so let's sing

And the moon shines bright on the water tonight

So we won't drown in the summer sound

Yeah, yeah, we can all grab at the chance to be handsome farmers

Yeah you can have twenty-one sons and be blood when they marry my daughters"

( From "2080")

So check out All Hours Cymbals, see them live, and cop their new album when it comes out.


MP3- Sunrise

MP3- 2080

MP3- Tightrope

MP3- Wait For The Summer

MP3- Forgiveness

MP3- Wait For The Wintertime

MP3- No Need To Worry

MP3- Simian Mobile Disco w/Yeasayer: The Audacity Of Huge

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