Yeasayer- All Hour Cymbals

in the vein of grizzly bear/dirty projectors but actually good.

live, the singer is really annoying. like he moves his fingers on the smapler buttons as if he is playing a cello. some good harmonies on the single, but i still only half like it. haven't heard the rest of the album.

in the vein of grizzly bear/dirty projectors but actually good.

-- Jordan Sargent, Friday, October 5, 2007 7:15 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

This is pretty much meaningless isn't it?

All these 3 bands sound very different.

ok sorry man... I guess you could say they were similar in the media attention they've gotten. Or in being indie rock.

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This is pretty much meaningless isn't it?

All these 3 bands sound very different.

-- vadx, Friday, October 5, 2007 2:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

lots of clanging, multi-dude harmonies, echo-y singing.

yeasayer is more full-bodied than grizzly bear and more coherent than dirty projectors, but they're definitely of that realm/universe, etc.

the verses on 'sunrise' sound like 'in the air tonight' kinda, which means they're awesome.

haha xpost that description covers tons of rock from the past 4 or 5 decades

I know what you mean though

I got this the other day and am very impressed. I know very little of this 'realm' though.

this is actually quite good and surprising

Zeno u my indie compatriot.

it's great how this record is at once tense and celebratory.

by songyone on 10-28-2007 @ 07:16:14 AM
Gobsmaked. This song, this album. Astonishing. As to meaning... er... a celebration of life in the face of, well, what we all face. Can't rephrase it any way that does justice to the above.

italicized part is a pretty nice desc. of this record.

Zeno have you heard the phosphorescent album? i think you would like.

no, but ill check it,thanks

I love this album so far (especially "2080," which is the serious standout I think), but I have to say - and I am hesitant to say this, because I really don't mean it as a nightmare-conjuring insult - that it reminds me intensely of the album "Mental Jewelry" by Live.

"Mental Jewelry" by Live.

Boy, that pinpoints my reservations. There are parts of this that are glorious, but I've got a nagging feeling that the strongest aspects of this band (neurotic Lindsey Buckingham melodies, spacious Savage Republic textures) will vanish as they become popular.

i don't think these dudes will become anywhere as near as popular as live.

also that shouldn't make you like the album less.

^^^Right. And this line -- "neurotic Lindsey Buckingham melodies, spacious Savage Republic textures" -- makes the band sound pretty great.

Lindsey Buckingham/Fleetwood Mac are influencing a bunch of stuff these days. BTW, Yeasayer's debut disc is very good.

the lp eez disappointing since "2080" is so amazing. but their live show - the instinct for dynamics, for harmony and timbre, - make me pretty confident Bigger and Better things await.

there are def obvious highlights on the album— "sunrise", "2080,"— to name my favorites, i find myself getting lost in it fairly often, and that's not something i can say a lot of other indie albums this year where i thought there were two or three particularly, overwhelmingly fantastic songs (say, idk the menomena album for instance. or even arcade fire.)

and i think that speaks to their ability to create a really enveloping and narcotic atmosphere. their instrumentation is really lush and fantastic.

What I'm saying is the sharp parts are very good. "Sunrise" and "Wait for the Winter" are nearly perfect. But tracks like "Ah Weir" and "Worms" rely on the sort of echo-pedal melodrama and atmospheric moaning that really bug me. It's the same thing that keeps me from getting much out of Radiohead, yet seems to draw in a lot of other listeners.

the lp eez disappointing since "2080" is so amazing

Isn't that the way of the world these days? Most recent discs I have -- even the really outstanding ones -- have one or two songs that tower over all the others. So it doesn't surprise me that 2080 (and Sunrise) tower over the other songs on the disc.

hey! this is really good! i just heard it today! i'm sure it'll wear off on me soon, as most buzzworthy-type indie albums do, but for now i am listening to "2080" a bunch of times in a row and it's very exciting and propulsive and all that.

i like it a lot too! sort of hubristic how much they try to cram into each song, but mostly i think it moves along well! i don't really hear the byrne/afropop thing (a few guitar parts aside) so much as peter gabriel and uh pink floyd

This is kinda Tusk-ey and I like it a bit.

Dull at ULU in London on Monday - marrying long wigouts to insipid visuals. Only real point of interest was the audience - extraordinarily posh. Puzzled by this. Did they spend the winter playing gigs in Val d'Isere? Are they Tatler's new favourite band? Anyone know about this?

ponytails

They reminded me of the Verve when I saw 'em.

Guitarist dude has this weird Yanni/Weird Al thing going on.

they seemed less rhythm-heavy live than on record, maybe the show i saw was mixed badly, despite all the GATED DRUMS (yesss!!!)

Haha. In my notes about the Yeasayer show (they played with No Age just a little bit ago) I wrote "Bassist=Weird Al."

Anybody else hearing Talk Talk in this?

i hear Peter Gabriel.

Saw them live at the Pukkelpop festival in Belgium yesterday - very impressive, think I might go to another show of theirs next Tuesday. Reminded me of Japan (the fretless bass) and This Heat (vocals, rhythmic loops) a bit.

Great, great live band. Their album doesn't do them justice at all - hopefully their next will. The song they've been playing that's not on the album "Final Path," is quite something.

Never seen them live, but yeah, the album doens't quite do it for me.

The song they've been playing that's not on the album "Final Path," is quite something

This song is the b-side to the "Waiting for the Summer" single.

i like this band. i think big hoos sent me some mp3s

xxpost: indeed - just checked out the album and I agree: live >>> album

This album finally clicked with me... brilliant.

Slightly jealous I'm not in the Austin area to catch them live while they're in the States.

It reminds me intensely of the album "Mental Jewelry" by Live.

Not much of a Yeasayer fan personally, but as far as

Lindsey Buckingham/Fleetwood Mac are influencing a bunch of stuff these days

Great for the first 3/4 tracks then falls right off for me

2080 is a fuckin dope song, i wish the rest of this album was as good

so pleased that peter gabriel/eno-byrne/late fleetwood mac are influencing so many bands these days, makes me want to listen to more indie rock than i have in years

This is my favorite current band, yet their album somehow lacks punch. I always judge bands based on their studio recordings, but in this rare case I have to recommend seeing them live. They sound more confident, and not as folksy and psych. Totally pro live band.

new single up on http://www.amblingalp.com/

this sounds like it should be on a disney movie soundtrack

Odd Blood is out and about, and pretty damn awesome.

All Hour Cymbals had a few really great tracks, and a lot I can't remember. Odd Blood is front-to-back superb.

I am so excited for this. All Hour Cymbals had moments of brilliance... I'm hoping they are expanded in their follow up.

Expect to hear a pretty drastic style shift (large portions of the album's latter half sound a lot like the first Tears for Fears album).

Yeah. All Hour Cymbals never really got onto my radar, but this is front to back amazing.

Highlights thus far are Ambling Alp (duh!), O.N.E., Rome and Mondegreen.

That said, the cover art is very much NAGL:

http://www.secretlycanadian.com/press/yeasayer/SC210.jpg

Decomposing human body with alien brain and hundreds of coloured triangular slugs from ReBoot?

tears for fears? yessss

that cover is way creed

reboot comparison otm. isn't it really obvious to everyone that this looks really bad? even their friends and girlfriends must have been hard-put to smile and act like they liked it. wtf!

If I had to guess, I'd say it looks hologram-y irl. Or at least has a metallic finish.

http://earlboykins.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-bet-they-just-heard-yeasayer-record.html

kind of an amazing album -- my one gripe is that it sounds a bit compressed? maybe it's a bad leak, altho it seems like leaks nowadays are pretty much top copies. anyway i kind of wish it was more spacious and atmospheric, but it's a pretty small gripe. the middle section of this is the best, from "madder red" to "rome"