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Wax Pick: Yeasayer – Odd Blood

I know I already tweeted this album out a few times, but figured I’d still put it up on here since Yeasayer is gaining in popularity exponentially with each passing day, and the album has been on heavy rotation in my home and car for the better part of the past few weeks now.

Yeasayer is a Brooklyn-based group pumping out some great experimental electronic indie meets world beats. They started gaining steam upon a tour with Brooklyn buddies MGMT. Both groups feature highly affected falsetto vox, which I’ve unofficially deemed the new Brooklyn sound… solely based on a handful of groups hailing from the great NY. They first grabbed my attention a while back when Kevin Pereira was rocking “Sunrise” off the group’s first album, All Hour Cymbals.

I almost made that one a wax pick back then, but I didn’t feel like the album as a whole was as strong as I would have liked. It’s since grown on me a lot. Nonetheless, Yeasayer’s sophomore release, Odd Blood, is a very strong album and has a populace of gushing bloggers already forecasting it as one of 2010′s best.

My favorite tracks, the freebie Ambling Alp and O.N.E. The percussion will make you want to dance.

Yeasayer – Odd Blood

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 2:39 pm. It is filed under wax picks and tagged with brooklyn, experimental, indie, new york, percussion, world. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.