Yeasayer, "I Am Chemistry" Brooklyn weirdos Yeasayer are releasing their first album in four years, Amen & Goodbye, on April 1st.
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Hear tracks by Yeasayer, Courtney Barnett, Omar Apollo and others.
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It's been a bit since you've heard from Yeasayer, yeah?
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Yeasayer claims the allegedly stolen material is "immediately recognizable" as theirs.
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Did you two overlap much during your respective stints in Yeasayer?
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How soon after you two left Yeasayer did Sinkane become the priority?
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We were rehearsing before we even knew what would happen with Yeasayer.
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When I was asked to join Yeasayer, they wanted me to play drums.
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They [Yeasayer] wanted to do something else and I wanted to do Sinkane.
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Related: Yeasayer Puts the Art in "Art Rock" with David Altmejd Yeasayer, Casey Reas, And Aranda\Lasch Create A Generative Tour Environment First Look: Yeasayer's Prismatic New Tour Environment Designed By Casey Reas Surreal Taxidermy Gets Suspended in a Plexiglass Labyrinth
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Update: Yeasayer have also dropped a new video for "I Am Chemistry" as well.
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Related: Creators Remix Roundup: Passion Pit, Emily Kai Bock, Diplo, And Yeasayer Yeasayer, Casey Reas, And Aranda\Lasch Create A Generative Tour Environment First Look: Yeasayer's Prismatic New Tour Environment Designed By Casey Reas Surreal Taxidermy Gets Suspended in a Plexiglass Labyrinth
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Now, with Amen & Goodbye, Yeasayer sounds like the band's attempt to cover all their bases.
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Jake is playing guitar and keys, and that's Anand Wilder from Yeasayer playing the cello.
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Sometimes I play guitar in the studio with other artists: Paul Simon, Yeasayer, Sondre Lerche to name a few.
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Yeasayer consider their fourth full-length, Amen & Goodbye, a new chapter, possibly even the start of a new trilogy.
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"I don't think David knew who we were [before this collaboration]," Yeasayer vocalist Chris Keating tells The Creators Project.
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The experimental rock band Yeasayer has released the video for its new single "I Am Chemistry," and it's suitably strange.
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Young Magic is also pleased to announce that they will embark on a cross-country tour with Yeasayer this May-June.
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For the cover of Amen & Goodbye, Yeasayer commissioned Altmejd to create a series of sculptures of characters referenced in their lyrics.
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Yeasayer has given The Creators Project a suite of exclusive images highlighting each of the characters, which you can peruse throughout this article.
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We were kind of in the boat while we were playing in Yeasayer so there was a strong bond between the two of us.
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With their latest effort, Amen & Goodbye, out now via Mute Records, art rock band Yeasayer enlisted Canadian artist David Altmejd to help define the record's image.
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All Hour Cymbals, the first and most well-known LP by Brooklyn band Yeasayer, came out in 2007, a year that, in hindsight, may have been indie rock's zenith.
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Ren-Faire woodwinds, choirs, and caterwauling Yeasayer has always been an intellectual band, and their strength lies in their ability to make experimental compositions sound like digestible pop songs.
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As they transformed between their wall of sound first album, All Hour Cymbals, and the danceable Odd Blood, Yeasayer has again emerged from the chrysalis a beautiful, transformed butterfly.
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After wrapping up the promotional cycle for Fragrant World, Yeasayer found themselves not only struggling to decide what would come next, but doing so without a label in North America.
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"Cold Night" is one of the album's best, simplest songs But it wouldn't be a Yeasayer album without a few lullabies, most of which show up in the album's second half.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads "Where's my head?" sing Chris Keating and Anand Wilder of psych-pop band Yeasayer in "Silly Me," a track off their new album Amen & Goodbye.
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Art rock outfit Yeasayer is dropping its first record in five years, Amen & Goodbye, on Friday, and with it comes a holistically artistic approach to the music, album, videos, and touring.
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Members of the New York bands Yeasayer, the Walkmen, Real Estate, Cibo Matto, Vampire Weekend and around a dozen more guests will pop in for straightforward and quirky takes on holiday classics.
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For the 2012 Fragrant World tour, The Creators Project brought Yeasayer together with Casey Reas and Aranda\Lasch to create a high-tech crystalline stage with trippy visuals, and we heavily documented the process.
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He's played percussion in Yeasayer, where he and JayTram turned from competing rivals into devoted bandmates; spiced up the Caribou rhythm section as a multi-instrumentalist; and he helmed the drum kit with Of Montreal in 2008.
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Some of these groups found their individual artistic highs before or after that year, but today, even a mere mention of Yeasayer recalls a time when rock could be outsider-y enough to avoid radio play, but accessible enough to easily win fans.
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Nas, Dinosaur Jr., Wu-Tang Clan, The Kills, Erykah Badu, Jamie xx, Dizzee Rascal, Yeasayer, and Shlohmo were a few of the artists who performed in the past few days and below are a bunch of shots from the international shows for optimum FOMO.
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From the spiritual psych-rock of All Hour Cymbals, to the conceptual freak pop of Odd Blood, on to the paranoid, sci-fi moves of Fragrant World, the only logical step for Yeasayer was a complete overhaul of how they make music or bust.
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Chance the Rapper and The Weeknd round out the top of the bill and then, deep breath: Kygo, Grimes, The 1975, Bryson Tiller, Savages, Metric, Empire of the Sun, Chromeo, Kamasi Washington, Sylvan Esso, Mac Miller, Frightened Rabbit, Yeasayer, Charles Bradley, The Temper Trap and Twin Shadow performing Purple Rain. Right?
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The Weekend and Kendrick Lamar might want people to say some prayers for them ... they're being sued for allegedly jacking music for their hit song, "Pray for Me." A Brooklyn-based rock band called Yeasayer claims the duo lifted material from its 2007 song, "Sunrise," slightly altered it ... and inserted it into their 'Pray' single, which was featured on the "Black Panther" soundtrack.
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And catch Young Magic on tour with Yeasayer in a city near you: 63/12 Port City Music Hall - Portland, ME 5/13 Paradise Rock Club - Boston, MA 25/229 Irving Plaza - New York, NY 25/231 26:201 Club - Washington, DC 023/202 Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA 26/203 The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC 5/21 Exit / In - Nashville, TN 5/22 Majestic Theatre - Detroit, MI 5/23 Lincoln Hall - Chicago, IL 63/24 First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN 5/28 Imperial - Vancouver, BC 5/29 Wonder Ballroom -Portland, OR 5/31 The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA 6/01 The Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 6/02 The Observatory North Park - San Diego, CA 6/03 The Observatory - Santa Ana, CA Related: [Music Video] Vinyl Williams Puts on Kaleidoscope Eyes for "Space Age Utopia" Virtual Psychedelia: Enter Vinyl Williams' Surreal Jungle Enter a Virtual World of Glitches and Iridescence to Explore Rioux's Newest EP Playable Music Video Is Like 'Fear and Loathing' in Virtual Reality
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The lawsuit later reached its conclusion in July 2020, after Yeasayer dropped it.
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DK, and by Yeasayer. Another remix was produced by Betablock3r and released, but not included in the extended play.
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Amen & Goodbye is the fourth studio album by American experimental rock band Yeasayer, released on April 1, 2016 on Mute.
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Fragrant World is the third studio album by American psychedelic pop band Yeasayer, released on August 21, 2012, on Secretly Canadian.
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Retrieved 11 August 2013 He arranged for co- producer Katina Faye Hubbard to meet them in Jamaica, where the film was completed. Filming lasted three weeks in total. The film features music by MGMT, Yeasayer, Santigold, Suckers, Mykal Rose, Mr. Lexx and The Congos. Ira Wolf Tuton of Yeasayer and Ben Goldwasser of MGMT also appear in the film.
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On April 10, 2019 the band announced their fifth album Erotic Reruns. The album was released on June 7, 2019 via their own Yeasayer Records.
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In February 2020, Tesfaye and Lamar were sued by now- split American experimental rock band Yeasayer for alleged plagiarism due to vocal similarities with their 2007 song "Sunrise". According to the lawsuit, the part allegedly stolen from the song includes "the recording of a distinctive choral performance, which Plaintiffs [Yeasayer] created and recorded using their own voices". Furthermore, Yeasayer claims that "Defendants extracted Plaintiffs’ choral performance from a recording of 'Sunrise,' slightly modified it, including, on information and belief, via postprocessing to alter its pitch, among other qualities" and then subsequently used the modified audio in their own song. The accused party have denied the accusation.
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Music review aggregator Metacritic gives the album a score of 81, based on four reviews. The band's sound drew comparisons to Beach House, Yeasayer and Awolnation.
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All Hour Cymbals is the debut studio album by Brooklyn-based experimental rock group Yeasayer. It was released by We Are Free on 23 October 2007, and 24 March 2008 in the UK.
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Yeasayer () was an American experimental rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2006. The band consisted of Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Anand Wilder. They announced their split on December 19, 2019.
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The Yeasayer song Ambling Alp, from their 2010 album Odd Blood references Carnera by his nickname in the title and second verse. Both Carnera and German boxer Max Schmeling are referenced for their bouts with American Joe Louis.
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The band also played at Lollapalooza, the Pitchfork Music Festival, the Austin City Limits Festival, Bonnaroo, Sasquatch! Music Festival, and the Reading and Leeds Festivals. In 2009, Yeasayer contributed "Tightrope" to the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization.
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Songs by: Jay Leo Phillips, Clay Morris, Kevin Allen, Conrad Keely, Jason Reece and Aaron Ford. Engineers: Chris Coady; Jason Buntz; David Tolomei; Jim Volentine; Frenchie Smith. Additional vocals by: Dragons of Zynth, Yeasayer Brenda Radney Jonathan Nesvadba, Joel Nesvadba and Paul Banks. Recorded at: Bubble Studios, Austin TX.
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Strange Talk is an Australian synthpop duo from Melbourne, Victoria, consisting of Gerard Sidhu and Stephen Docker. Formed in 2010, their sound has been likened to that of Cut Copy, Passion Pit, Phoenix and Yeasayer. Strange Talk's most recent EP, E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N, was released on 16 October 2015 via Wind-up Records.
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People Get Ready is an American four-piece indie rock band based out of Brooklyn, New York. The band consists of Steven Reker, Luke Fassano (formerly of Yeasayer) James Rickman, and Jen Goma. They are known primarily for their live performances, which showcase a blend of rock show and performance art.
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She played the Hot Festival in October 2010, with Massive Attack, Scissors Sisters, Yeasayer and Mika among other artists. García currently lives in Buenos Aires and she plays shows all over the country. She directs Escuela de Experimentacion Vocal. In 2014 she released an album of tangos titled Tangos Vampiros.
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Hillis, Aaron (2010) "Norah Jones, MGMT, and Yeasayer Walk Into a Movie -- Why, Wah Do Dem, Why?", The Village Voice, June 15, 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2013 The Boston Globe writer Wesley Morris gave the film one star out of five, opining that the directors "don't open any dramatic or emotional door".
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Following the release of Positive Force, the band toured with Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Dirty Projectors, Tune-Yards and Yeasayer. While supporting Tame Impala on their US tour, a live album was recorded at a November 13, 2014 show at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas. Live in Las Vegas was released on March 3, 2015.
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Odd Blood is the self-produced second studio album by American experimental rock band Yeasayer. Recorded in the state of New York during 2009, it was released on February 8, 2010 in Europe and a day later in North America, with Secretly Canadian as the primary label. "Ambling Alp", "O.N.E.", "Madder Red", and "I Remember" were released as singles.
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Odd Blood peaked at number 63 on the US Billboard 200 and at number 64 on the UK Albums Chart. It reached number five on the US Billboard Independent Albums chart. Yeasayer followed the record's release with an extended tour throughout 2010. Odd Blood was mostly crafted with engineer Steve Revitte in a secluded cabin studio.
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During the sessions, Yeasayer experimented with different types of instruments and recording machines. Auxiliary musicians were hired to help with the process. The idea was to marry sonic experimentation with pop structures, while primary songwriters Chris Keating and Anand Wilder explored a variety of themes such as boxing, addiction, and paranoia. Odd Blood also contains several love songs.
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Sullivant performed on the Late Show with David Letterman and the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland with MGMT. He played on tours with Of Montreal, Fiery Furnaces, and Yeasayer, and played MGMT’s first overseas dates in the UK and Europe. He left the band in 2008 and was replaced by guitarist James Richardson and Will Berman who plays drums.
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Yeasayer's acclaimed debut studio album, All Hour Cymbals, was released in 2007 by independent label We Are Free. The band followed its success by co- headlining a tour with synthpop duo MGMT and by part-producing and playing bass guitar on Bat for Lashes' Two Suns, a dream pop record released in 2009. The same year, a new Yeasayer track, "Tightrope", was used in Red Hot Organization's Dark Was the Night compilation in support of HIV/AIDS sufferers, while vocalist and keyboardist Chris Keating sang and co-wrote Simian Mobile Disco's single "Audacity of Huge", from the band's electronic record Temporary Pleasure. Backed by a new good-sized independent label, Secretly Canadian, and a bigger recording budget, Yeasayer started work on a second studio album in February 2009.
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During this early period they frequently worked with Brooklyn-based artists such as MGMT, Chairlift, Dev Hynes and Yeasayer, while also importing national and international artists including Wild Nothing, Future Islands and Tame Impala. In 2010, PopGun served as the in-house talent buying team for Santos Party House. With the online zine Stereogum, they set up Stereo Gun CMJ showcases.
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Le Loup was an American indie band founded in September 2006, in Washington, D.C. by Sam Simkoff (keyboard/banjo). The band also includes Christian Ervin (computer), Michael Ferguson (guitar), Dan Ryan (bass), Robert Sahm (drums) and Jim Thomson (guitar). Their name is French for "The Wolf". The group has drawn comparisons to Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, The Books, Animal Collective and Yeasayer.
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These acts included Yeasayer, Toro Y Moi, Blood Orange, Chairlift, Tanlines, Twin Shadow, Das Racist, Bear In Heaven, Titus Andronicus, Phantogram, Caribou, Jay Reatard, Wild Nothing, Lemonade, Suckers, Keepaway, Phosphorescent, Passion Pit and Gang Gang Dance.A history of Glasslands shows can be viewed at In 2011, Lana Del Rey played a secret practice gig under the moniker Queen Of Coney Island.
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The track was trialled at different festivals, after which Yeasayer decided to keep its live "funkier vibe". For "Love Me Girl", Wilder used loops to evoke the emotions in the final scene of the movie Trainspotting—in which a character finds a sum of money in a locker—followed by an R&B; style similar to Justin Timberlake's. The song's melody was created using an acoustic guitar and MIDI notes on computer program GarageBand, to which synthetic elements and a dancehall-type beat were then added. The seventh track on Odd Blood, "Rome", features beats taken from Moroccan and Syrian dance music that Keating's wife had on her iPod, while for "Strange Reunions", Yeasayer created a short song under three minutes by exploring unconventional time signatures in different parts in the style of fellow New York City band Dirty Projectors.
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Yeasayer wanted a recording place close to Brooklyn, but removed from it. The band members aimed to streamline their songwriting processes by only doing what things were necessary in whatever parts without embellishing with long songs. According to Revitte, nobody was "married to anything" and minute things like vocal lines were recorded and rerecorded until done right. Sometimes whole sections were redone from scratch.
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The name was chosen after the band had a brainstorming session, where Keating wanted a strong title like Blood while Wilder aimed for something more offbeat like Coca-Cola or The King of Queens. Yeasayer followed the album's release with an extensive tour of Europe and North America until November 2010. As of 2012, sales in the United States have exceeded 80,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
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Their second studio album Temporary Pleasure was finally announced on 6 May, featuring many guests including Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals, Alexis Taylor of Hot Chip, Beth Ditto of Gossip, and Chris Keating of Yeasayer. On New Year's Eve 2009 Simian Mobile Disco headlined "Get Loaded in the Dark" at the Brixton Academy, alongside Annie Mac (BBC Radio 1), Chase & Status, Herve and Sub Focus.
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The festival took place on 9-10 August and featured Yeasayer, Welshly Arms, Tom Grennan, The Black Madonna, Superorganism, Puding pani Elvisovej, Para, Medial Banana, Max Cooper, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Katarzia, Joyce Muniz, Jon Hopkins, IAMDDB, Dub FX, Daniel Avery, Black Honey, Billy Barman, Bad Karma Boy, APRE, Aphrodite, Andy C, Algiers, Adriatique, Tove Lo, The Vaccines, The Kooks, Rudimental, Chvrches and other acts. Around 20,000 persons attended the festival.
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The Black Eyed Peas, David Guetta, Jamiroquai, Pony Pony Run Run, La Roux, Vitalic, The Bloody Beetroots, Curry & Coco, Something A La mode, Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, M, Phoenix, Coheed and Cambria, Julian Casablancas, Gomez, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, TV Glory, Gush, Angus & Julia Stone, Hawkins, Art Point M, Rammstein, Pink, Gossip, Stereophonics, Florence and the Machine, Yeasayer, Skip The Use, The Bewitched hands, Patrick Watson & Delphic.
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In January 2013, John Cale organized a tribute A Life Along the Borderline at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City. Performers included Cale, Kim Gordon with Bill Nace, Sharon Van Etten, Meshell Ndegeocello, Stephin Merritt, Peaches, Alison Mosshart, Joan As Police Woman, Greg Dulli, Yeasayer, and Mercury Rev. The song 'Last Ride' on Beach House's 2018 album 7 "was inspired by" Nico, according to lead singer Victoria Legrand.
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Two Suns is the second studio album by English singer Bat for Lashes. It was released on 3 April 2009 by The Echo Label and Parlophone. The album was produced by Khan herself and David Kosten (who also worked on her debut album Fur and Gold), and features collaborations with members of Yeasayer and Scott Walker. Two Suns was recorded in segments in California, New York City, London, Brighton and Wales.
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In May 2011, the band premiered their brand new song "Devil and the Deed" on Conan O'Brien's late night talk show. During their subsequent tour of North America, the band played this song at shows along with two other new tunes, "Demon Road" and "Henrietta". All three of these songs appeared on the final track listing for the band's next album. On August 21, 2012, Yeasayer released Fragrant World.
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As a guitarist, Marion has performed live on stage with Mac DeMarco, Kimbra, Built to Spill, Yeasayer, Dirty Projectors, Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, Dr. Dog, Tune-Yards, Kyp Malone, Khaira Arby, Akron/Family, Ra Ra Riot, Fang Island, Sondre Lerche, Nicole Atkins and Seltzer Boys (a supergroup consisting of Yeasayer and Suckers members). Marion also collaborated with Paul Simon on his 2015 album Stranger to Stranger. In 2017, Marion joined the Growlers as a guitarist for their City Club world tour. Marion collaborated with Amen Dunes to record guitar on the 2018 album Freedom. The record was met with positive critical acclaim, earning the title of “Best New Music” from Pitchfork. Uproxx critic Steven Hyden wrote, "With Marion’s understated but assertive guitar acting as the album's focal point, Freedom recalls the arena-ready, widescreen sweep of U2 or the Verve". In 2019, Marion joined The Black Keys as a guitarist on their “Let’s Rock” tour.
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Pin Me Down were a pop/electronica/rock side project of guitarist Russell Lissack, of the British band Bloc Party, and guitarist/singer Milena Mepris. The band was managed by Robt Ptak, who had previously worked with Mepris in Ptak's project Artificial Joy. The band made their live debut as a 5–6 piece in May 2008 in London, supporting Yeasayer. Their first single "Cryptic" appears on Kitsuné Maison Compilation 5 as track number 5.
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"Audacity of Huge" is a 2009 song by Simian Mobile Disco, from their album Temporary Pleasure. It features vocals by Chris Keating of Yeasayer."Audacity of Huge", at Pitchfork; published May 22, 2009; retrieved March 19, 2018 The music video was directed by Kate Moross.Simian Mobile Disco give us Temporary Pleasure, at Resident Advisor; published May 8, 2009; retrieved March 19, 2018 The Guardian has described the song as the "lament (of) an uber- materialist".
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Richie Hawtin, Roots Manuva, Songhoy Blues, Gui Boratto, Craig Richards (DJ), Bangkok's More Rice and Hong Kong’s ALTN8, Sarayu, Nicola Cruz, Chronixx with Zincfence Redemption, Izzy Bizu, Wild Beasts, Khun Narin and his Electric Phin Band, Yeasayer, All Thidsa, Be Svendsen, Bobby Pleasure, Boonhugsa, Crew Love Takeover, Curtismith, CYRK, Eduardo Castillo, Gapi and the Thai Dub Mafia, Hernandez Brothers, Kingkong and The Chum, Marmosets, Matt Sassari, Mimi Love, Nerve, Side Effect and Singto Numchok.
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The band's first EP of their own music, Settings, was released in March 2010 and was praised by Pitchfork as "an enjoyable listen" and "a punchy introduction to what these guys do well". In November 2010, Tanlines released Volume On, a compilation of all of their released music up until that date and several other tracks and remixes. The band has played with Vampire Weekend, The xx, Rick Ross, Yeasayer, Health and Delorean. They are from Brooklyn, NY.
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The engineer also helped the band with advice about what other groups their evolving work sounded like. Yeasayer created music in the context of thinking about the music they liked, including interesting works from contemporaries. The aim was to craft pop songs unapologetically and embrace the genre as much as possible. Wilder has noted that Keating singing lead vocals gives songs an added extra as he has "a true pop voice", while he and Tuton do not.
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The band’s way of mixing pop and avant-garde music met with much critical acclaim. "Braids' uniquely feminine experimental pop is largely a success", argued Allmusic, mentioning Animal Collective, Björk, Karen O, Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie Sioux, and Yeasayer as possible influences. According to Spin, the album "pairs glimmering, pastoral post-rock with foul-mouthed lyrics", making this girl's psyche preparation a fascinating thing to watch. "This is a band that is all about abstraction, experimentation and, most important, obfuscation", a Prefix reviewer remarked.
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Sinkane (born Ahmed Abdullahi Gallab in London, England) is a Sudanese- American musician who blends krautrock, prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk rock with Sudanese pop. He is signed to City Slang Records. Born to college professors in London, he lived in Sudan, then moved to the US when he was five, and lived for some time in Ohio. Prior to embarking on his solo career, he worked with Eleanor Friedberger, Caribou, of Montreal, Born Ruffians, and Yeasayer as a session musician.
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They have also remixed tracks for artists such as UNKLE, Cut Copy, Empire of the Sun, Peter Bjorn and John, and Yeasayer. The Golden Filter performed at the SXSW Music Festival at least seven times in March 2009, and toured North America with The Presets between March 30 and April 20, 2009, performing on sixteen dates altogether. They have also done two short UK tours and a European festival tour in 2010. They appeared at the Iceland Airwaves Festival on October 16, 2009.
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American psychedelic pop band Yeasayer (pictured) produced a remix of "Saturday Night". "Saturday Night" was released on 28 June 2013 as Troubles official second single: clean and explicit versions were released simultaneously before they were placed under its album's page. It was also serviced to Swedish pop radio stations. More than four months later, a remix EP for the song was released, containing two already known remixes by Gregori Klosman and Lovelife and two new remixes by Samantha Ronson vs.
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In 2010, Gilbere formalized his relationship with Raak. The two busily began preparing Gilbere's debut, 87 Dreams. The release solidified Gilbere as a strong voice not to be ignored, and sparked a bidding war amongst many major labels. This critical acclaim, led to a slew of 2010 featured guest appearances, most notably, Stromae's "Alors on danse" remix also featuring Kanye West, the Yeasayer remix of Florence + The Machine's "Dog Days Are Over", and the Diplo and Switch-produced "Up All Night" by Alex Clare.
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Odd Blood is built around sonic experimentation with different genres and synthetic musical elements. Yeasayer tried to commit to certain styles for an entire song and "not jump around". Opener "The Children" is an electronically manipulated song created with the extensive use of subwoofers. The band members sang its harmonies through a fan and used pitch shifters and were determined to have the song as the first track, especially because Keating liked the idea of starting the album as "a departure point" from the last "very choral" song on All Hour Cymbals.
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"O.N.E." is a song by American experimental rock band Yeasayer. It was released as the second official single from the band's second studio album Odd Blood under Secretly Canadian in the United States and Mute Records in the United Kingdom on March 23, 2010. The song has peaked at number 24 on the Belgian Ultratop Flanders single chart and at number 190 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also featured in the in-game soundtrack for the video game Grand Theft Auto V and EA Sports game, FIFA 11.
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The album was recorded throughout 2008 and 2009 in the band's studio in East London by James Ford and Damon Albarn, the Blur frontman. Taking time during their world tour of DJing and performing live, they recorded with guests such as Beth Ditto (from Gossip) and Alexis Taylor (from Hot Chip). This was preceded by the release of a new single "Audacity of Huge" (featuring Chris Keating from Yeasayer) on 3 August 2009. Prior to its release, the band streamed a low quality version of the single on their official website from 22 May 2009.
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In 2012, Bell starred in the family drama film Big Miracle. She has also appeared in the music video for "Madder Red" by Brooklyn experimental rock band Yeasayer. Bell portrayed Mary Magdalene in The Truth & Life Dramatized Audio New Testament Bible, a 22-hour, celebrity-voiced, dramatized audio adaptation of the New Testament that uses the RSV-CE translation. Bell at the premiere of Frozen in 2013 at the El Capitan Theatre Bell starred as Jeannie van der Hooven, the female lead on the Showtime comedy series House of Lies, which premiered on January 8, 2012.
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The band traveled to Woodstock in upstate New York and rented the country home of percussionist Jerry Marotta, converted into Jersville Studio. Keating was joined by guitarist and keyboardist Anand Wilder, bassist Ira Wolf Tuton, and engineer Steve Revitte, but not All Hour Cymbals drummer Luke Fasano. According to a Rolling Stone article, Odd Blood was inspired by a trip to New Zealand, where Yeasayer experimented with LSD. Keating has jokingly pointed out that the aim was to "sonically challenge Rihanna in the clubs", with an emphasis on bass, while Wilder has said that the band tried to make "a poppier album".
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The site charted the rise of bands like Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade and Tune-Yards and has been credited with introducing them to a wider audience. It was also among the first outlets to write about Beirut, Nicolas Jaar, Basia Bulat, Yeasayer, Feist, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Besides its longevity, Said the Gramophone has been recognized for its "inventive, literary style" — using metaphor, anecdote and even short fiction to describe the way a song "feels" to the listener. It is also notable for the way it has never accepted advertising, subsisting on occasional funding drives from its readers.
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Songs from Odd Blood were featured on several TV shows and films, including 90210, America's Next Top Model, The Good Wife, and the 2012 film Pitch Perfect. The band toured extensively behind Odd Blood, with appearances at several major festivals, including Coachella Music Festival, the Dutch Pinkpop and Lowlands festival, Latitude Festival in England, and the Australian music festival Splendour in the Grass, where they were asked by the organizers of Laneway Festival to return and play in 2011. In April 2011, Yeasayer released End Blood in participation with Record Store Day which the band described as "two ideas that didn't fit on Odd Blood".
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Their first commercially released album, titled Relax, was released on September 13, 2011, on Suri's own Greedhead Music label. The album includes production from Diplo, El-P, Rostam Batmanglij (of Vampire Weekend), and Anand Wilder (of Yeasayer), as well as guest appearances from El-P, Danny Brown, Bikram Singh, and Despot. Das Racist consider Relax to be a more accessible album, and they refer to it as a "pop record". Despite receiving a middling review from Pitchfork, who had lauded their previous efforts, the album has received a generally favorable response, earning an 8 out of 10 from Spin magazine, and reaching the number one spots on both the iTunes Hip Hop/Rap chart and the U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers albums chart.
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In 2013, they had a surprise last minute performance from the Twilight star Robert Pattinson. Some US performers who have appeared in Sofar concerts include Giselle Bellas, Leon Bridges, Fantastic Negrito, Saba, X Ambassadors, Tank and the Bangas, Yeasayer, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman Karen O, while acts such as Núria Graham and Ali Somay have played Sofar Barcelona and Sofar Istanbul, respectively. The local Sofar Sounds branch in Los Angeles also teamed up with the charity Movember for a Giving Tuesday event, while the New York City branch previously organized a gig in aid of Planned Parenthood.Photo from Sofar Sounds NYC Facebook page (Retrieved 31 May 2017.) On 20 June 2017, (World Refugee Day) Sofar Sounds announced a global event series called 'Give a Home', in partnership with Amnesty International.
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Following this release, in 2009 the band released the It Will Be Ok EP. Outside of recording, the band has toured with Blonde Redhead, Colder, Yeasayer and has opened up for acts such as Justice, Flying Lotus, Radio 4 and Pinback. Additionally, the band has produced remixes for Bang Gang ("The World is Gray"), Modwheelmood ("Going Nowhere") and Faunts ("Explain"). Following their debut, they released sophomore album The Automatic Process in 2010, featuring 3 of the tracks from the It Will Be Ok EP. This album featured a shift to more beat heavy music, featuring pop elements while maintaining the band's characteristic minimalism and chilling atmosphere. The band followed this release with an EP titled A Quiet Place, written largely about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation the band members felt for their home state.
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The title is derived from the Blind Willie Johnson song "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground," which is covered on this collection by the Kronos Quartet. On 26 October 2009, it was announced on 4AD's website that profits raised by the compilation for the benefit of AIDS/HIV awareness and prevention amounted to £423,212 ($668,358), a sum that represents all the profits from worldwide sales for the first half of 2009. A Dark Was the Night Live concert followed at Radio City Music Hall on May 3, 2009. The concert was released as a DVD and included footage from the show, as well as exclusive rehearsal scenes, interviews and promotional performances featuring Andrew Bird, Dirty Projectors, The National, Colin Meloy, David Sitek and Yeasayer - plus more from David Byrne, Bon Iver, My Brightest Diamond, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings and Feist.
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Interest first arose in Glass Animals after the release of their debut extended play Leaflings on independent label Kaya Kaya Records, a subsidiary and imprint of XL Recordings, part of the Beggars Group of labels. After they became the first act to be signed to Wolf Tone, the record label of British producer Paul Epworth, they released their second, self-titled EP. A song from the EP, "Black Mambo", in addition to a re-recorded version of "Cocoa Hooves" from Leaflings, appears on Zaba, expanding the promotion of the album. Glass Animals also gained exposure in Europe by playing opening act on European shows of St. Vincent, Metronomy, Yeasayer and others. Zaba performed particularly well on the Australian charts, following three headline shows in the country and an appearance and regular airplay on Australian radio station Triple J. The album reached number 12 on the ARIA Charts.
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After Dystopia the band located to a beach house on the east coast of Australia to work on new music, having collected a lot of ideas while touring for the previous 2 years. After experimenting with a range of analogue gear and new digital sounds, a fresh batch of songs were written with a more 'prog' / 'layered' sound – working with a lot of ambient layers. The band then entered a range of studio's with engineer Chris Moore (TV on the radio, yeah yeah yeah's, yeasayer), and started tracking the new record . Fresh out of the studio, they were then asked to perform at a range of festivals in Buenos Aires and Australia (Splendour in the Grass) and also a tour supporting the Flaming Lips, road- testing new material including early versions of 'Vital Signs' (then called United Illuminations), and 'This New Technology' – allowing the songs to further develop.
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Waronker has played on a wide range of albums since beginning his professional career in the mid-1990s. Highlights include recordings with Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Johnny Cash, Yoko Ono, Pink, Leonard Cohen, Dwight Yoakam, Thurston Moore, Daniel Johnston, Doobie Brothers, Bat For Lashes, Pete Yorn, AIR, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Richard Thompson, Gnarls Barkley, Jeff Martin's Idaho, Brett Dennon, Benji Hughes, Tracy Chapman, Leona Ness, Sia, John Doe, Five For Fighting, Nelly Furtado, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Lisa Marie Presley, Willie DeVille, The Vines, Badly Drawn Boy, Rufus Wainwright, and R.L. Burnside. Some of his drumming can be instantly recognized on The Vines' "Get Free", Smashing Pumpkins' "Perfect", Beck's "Chemtrails" and Air's "Photograph", among others. He has produced numerous acts, most notably "Tamer Animals" and "Rituals" from Other Lives, as well as albums for Yeasayer, Priscilla Ahn, Lisa Germano, Eels, Carole Facal, and The Moth & the Flame.
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NBC's Law & Order aired its own fictionalized version of Lacks's story in the 2010 episode "Immortal," which Slate referred to as "shockingly close to the true story" and the musical groups Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine and Yeasayer both released songs about Henrietta Lacks and her legacy. Members of the Lacks family authored their own stories for the first time in 2013 when Lacks's oldest son and his wife, Lawrence and Bobbette Lacks, wrote a short digital memoir called "Hela Family Stories: Lawrence and Bobbette" with first-hand accounts of their memories of Henrietta Lacks while she was alive and of their own efforts to keep the youngest children out of unsafe living environments following their mother's death. The HeLa Project, a multimedia exhibition to honor Lacks, opened in 2017 in Baltimore at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. It included a portrait by Kadir Nelson and a poem by Saul Williams.
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V Festival in Perth, Western Australia The signing was soon followed by the release of their self-titled EP in September 2008. It reached the number 1 position on the Australian Independent Record Labels (AIR) Chart and number 10 on the ARIA Physical Singles Chart, with three songs, "Desire Be, Desire Go", "Half Full Glass of Wine" and "Skeleton Tiger" receiving national radio airplay on the Triple J radio station. Tours in 2008 included supports for You Am I, The Black Keys, Yeasayer and MGMT, as well as performances at Southbound Festival, Meredith Music Festival and Falls Festival, and national headline tours in support of their EP. Tours in 2009 included a sold-out six-date "Skeleton Tiger" national headline tour and a five-date UK tour (including Nevereverland UK), as well as performances at V Festival and Groovin The Moo, and a stadium tour with The Living End and Gyroscope. Tame Impala appeared on Triple J's Hottest 100 list in 2008—their first appearance on the list—with "Half Full Glass of Wine" at number 75.
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Edmondson was a CBBC continuity presenter from 2004 to 2006, prior to which, in 2002, he was a roving reporter for Channel 4's Richard & Judy.IndependentTalent.com Edmondson co-presented the 2008 coverage of the Isle of Wight Festival for ITV2.ITV Music – Isle Of Wight Festival ITV.com He also provided links and commentary for the MTV coverage of the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards. He presented reports from T in the Park 2009 for BBC One Scotland, BBC Two Scotland and BBC Three.BBC presenter line-up for T In The Park 2009 announced BBC Press Office, 17 June 2009 Edmondson also provided voiceovers for 4Music and presented Channel 4's Freshly Squeezed from 2010 until 2011.The Big Pink, Yeasayer, Miike Snow, We Have Band play TopMan Tour God is in the TV, 24 March 2010Matt Edmondson Money Management In May 2010, Edmondson presented highlights from The Great Escape FestivalThe Great Escape Festival Channel 4, 22 May 2010 and the Topman CTRL Student TourTopman CTRL Student Tour Channel 4, 29 May 2010 on Channel 4. On 27 June 2016, it was announced that Edmondson would co-host The Xtra Factor Live alongside Rylan Clark-Neal on ITV2.
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Like 10 seconds after the first dude got the first envelope, I think he was in Belgium or the Netherlands or something, that guy was sharing it, and there it goes." The rest of the album was leaked via an online scavenger hunt where the band gave fans clues as to where each song and an accompanying visual directed by Yoshi Sodeoka could be found. To further promote the album, Yeasayer performed single "Longevity" on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon the night before its commercial release. In much the same way that Odd Blood was a departure from All Hour Cymbals, Fragrant World saw the band continuing to expand their sound. According to Wolf Tuton, while Odd Blood featured pop influences, Fragrant World deliberately shied away from them: "If the tone of something veered too closely to a random pop song or to something on our previous records, we’d immediately steer it in a different direction. It’s easy to swerve back into your comfort zone without even realizing it, so we were very conscious of trying to stay away from that and take this into some different sonic direction.
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