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What happened to that band of beardy-weirdy new-prog rockers that were threatening to take over the world around the back-end of 2007 and early 2008? Well, around two years since the release of All Hour Cymbals Yeasayer have just announced a whole host of details of their new record.
Their second LP will be called Odd Blood and will be released on February 8 2010, on their new label, Mute, or on Secretly Canadian in North America. Recording and production of the album was split over the locations of Woodstock, NY and New York City.
The tracklisting for the album is as follows:
- The Children
- Ambling Alp
- Madder Red
- I Remember
- O.N.E.
- Love Me Girl
- Rome
- Strange Reunions
- Mondegreen
- Grizelda
That's about all we know of it. The music - we have no idea but, if it's anywhere along the lines of All Hour Cymbals then it's bound to have some pretty bold, brave and big moments in it, right? Or maybe even a change of direction?
Also, if you happen to be a resident - however briefly - of New York City, you'd be advised to get yourself along to see the band headlining the Guggenheim Museum which will see, we are told, more news about the album, as well as a barnstorming performance, naturally. That all takes place on October 30.
Not sure how to pronounce 'Yeasayer'? Just follow Jools Holland's easy guide!
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Spotifriday #15 - This Week on DiS as a playlist
I am happy to report
that Yeasayer played mostly new songs at their recent Bat for Lashes show at Rock City, and I watched them, and I listened to them play the songs, and I thought "shit!", that being an expression of amazement at the high quality rather than a really pretty rude opinion, and happily my expression of amazement seemed to be echoed and the thoughts of my fellow audience members, and in fact not only their thoughts, but also their words, for example in the toilets immediately afterwards where one man was heard to remark "that was the best fucking support band I've ever seen, and I've been watching gigs since Jimi Hendrix", which is a pretty bold claim but no-one was about to argue with him, so the statement stood, and then some other guy said "what was that band's name?", and so I told him, and he replied "what?", and so I repeated, and then eventually typed it into my phone for him to see, which was trickier than it sounds because "yeasayer" doesn't come up in predictive text mode, but I did it eventually and we all went our separate ways, safe in the knowledge that we'd just seen the best fucking support band in any gig since Jimi Hendrix.
Yeasayer Mk II
Live in Liverpool with pics and new song vids:
http://bit.ly/1Wu3Zp
ooh I'm all excited now
Thanks for the review and vids. I saw a Jimi Hendrix tribute band today who were perfect in every way except that they were called "Stone Free" and not "The Jimi Hendrix Experience Experience".

Yeasayer
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