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| Pitchfork |
 Yeasayer's first two studio albums, All Hour Cymbals and especially Odd Blood, veer from up-with-people transcendence to a unique brand of treacly annoyance on a nearly song-by-song basis. Determining whether the former justifies or excuses the latter isn't always clear. What I am sure of is that their live show aims for uplift and often gets there. Their singles have been fantastic across the board, and as such, if Live at Ancienne Belgique plays its cards right, it would be the best Yeasayer record to date.Though Live was released during the holidays for free on Yeasayer's website, they didn't exactly have carte blanche: this is a document of them touring Odd Blood after all, not a real chance to create a Greatest Hits. Still, the first two inclusions from their latest record here feel pretty comprehensive in summing up all angles of Yeasayer. Besides already being a choice cut from Odd Blood, "Madder Red" is performed beautifully as the opener, the confident work of a band that's toured themselves into something more purposeful and virtuosic, nailing every contour on the swooping falsetto hook while the vocals ache tenderly. But with "Rome", one the few indie rock songs of recent vintage that instantly remind me of Phish, the band barely keeps the arrangement together over its bouncing-ball beat. Yeah, there's plenty hackysack about Yeasayer, but if Live helps us remember anything, it's that this is a pop band, not a jam band (and besides, there's an aside about their snazzy gray suits to update you on their fashion sense). These songs often pop with big hooks, the drones are more about blissing out than tuning out, and they definitely don't ramble-- while the elastic highlight "O.N.E" could conceivably go on as long as they want, they let it stretch out a deserved amount, recognizing it's the point where Odd Blood hit its stride. Otherwise, not much stage banter, no rarities, no soloing. As a progress report of Yeasayer, the most valuable aspect of Live is the exposure of the connective tissue between two records of highly varying sonic character. All Hour Cymbals felt at home when African influences and Animal Collective were truly starting to lord over Brooklyn in 2007, but it was hindered by sounding like it was produced by Kirby, everything puffy, drifting, and expansive like a floating marshmallow. In its original incarnation, "Red Cave" was a bowl-passing hoedown, but here, it's rendered with spacious expanse and clarity. And while Odd Blood took a hard left by embracing a modernized take on 1985's State of the Art pop production, previously wigged out and bogged down numbers like "Grizelda" and "Strange Reunions" scale back the overzealous Pro Tooling to reveal handcrafted and ultimately penetrable sonic environments....full text |
| Prettymuchamazing |
| One of our favourite groups of 2010, Brooklyn’s Yeasayer have decided to give all their fans a little gift this Christmas! The gift comes in the form of a very excellent live album, titled Live at Ancienne Belgique, and was recorded on October 28, 2010 at the Ancienne Belgique venue, (obviously!) in Brussels. The album can be download from their website on a “name your own price” basis, and yes “free” is an option, and you can choose from a variety of audio formats as well. I highly recommend you all go and get the album, it is easily worth $10, so anything less is a deal! Check out the tracklising below and grab yourself a copy HERE. Enjoy!...full text |
| Prefixmag |
| eriously, the free releases this year have been absolutely crazy. I'm not complaining here, either, just kind of making a somewhat obvious point that I still felt needed to be made. Anyway, the latest band to give something away to its fans is Yeasayer. The Brooklyn-based act has put out a live recording of its set in Brussels at the Ancienne Belgique this past Oct. 28. And it's a pay-what-you-want deal, with you cheapskates (like me!) being able to download it for free. If you're feeling generous, though, you can pay up to $9.99 to grab this live recording that could serve as a nice break from all the Christmas music....full text |
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