Fleet Foxes kinda disappeared there for a while. I guess it was only in 2008 when they released their self-titled debut, which is an appropriate number of years in between albums, but we really hadn't heard ANYTHING from the band since.
Well, now Fleet Foxes are back. Their sophomore record Helplessness Blues drops May 3.
The title track is available for streaming and downloading below.
Dead Space 2 was released this week for Playstation 3 and XBOX 360. I played some of the original Dead Space and loved it, but for some reason I held off on making a purchase until the sequel came out.
At any rate, I picked up Dead Space 2, and it's nothing less than an incredible gaming experience so far. The biggest compliment I can give this game is that it takes the 'survival horror' mantle from the Resident Evil series of games and runs with it.
If you're not really a gamer, and/or you only know Resident Evil from the godawful series of movies they made, you do not know Resident Evil. Forget about that shit - the movies don't even remotely resemble the games. No offense, Milla Jovovich - you are stupid hot and I'm sure you have talents. But those movies are terrible. The original Resident Evil game was revolutionary at the time - a video game that was genuinely scary to play.
In Resident Evil, you played a special forces cop (You were part of a team called S.T.A.R.S.; I do not recall what the acronym stands for and I'm not looking it up) investigating a spooky mansion. Turns out the mansion is riddled with zombies, thanks to a virus unleashed by the nefarious Umbrella Corporation. You're armed with guns, but only have a limited number of bullets. The zombies lumber along nice and slow-like, but underestimate them at your own peril...a gang of them can surround you pretty easily, and then you are fucked. Before you know it, they are feasting on your brains.
As you progressed through Resident Evil, greater threats would emerge. Like zombie dogs. Those were a bitch, and they sure as hell weren't slow. There would be moments of terror - you'd just be walking down a hallway, no enemies in sight, and then holy shit, two zombie dogs crash through the window behind you! Now you don't know when you're safe, or when something's gonna suddenly appear to rip out your throat.
The idea with 'survival horror' games such as Resident Evil and now Dead Space is to take the thrill from watching a horror or intense action movie and take it the next level. You're not just watching some poor soul running for your life - you ARE that poor soul running for his life.
Explaining the band name Yeasayer to a friend: "You know how there are naysayers? Well..."
Yeasayer released Live At Ancienne Belgique on Christmas Day 2010. You can download it straight from their website, and like with Radiohead and Progressive Insurance, you are free to name your own price. "Dear Wonderful Fans, To celebrate the close of 2010, your amazing support, and numerous requests, we have decided to unlock the Yeasayer vault and release this live show recorded at the lovely Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. We are letting you, the fans, name the price. See you in 2011. – Much Love, Yeasayer"
Yeasayer's sophomore record Odd Blood was one of my favorite albums from last year. Others didn't like the record quite as much. A common criticism is that it's uneven. I don't quite buy it, as I find the record to be an incredibly enjoyable listen from start-to-finish. If that's what you thought though, Live At Ancienne Belgique gives you the best material from Odd Blood, along with highlights from their debut record All Hour Cymbals, in a different package. The live performances are great, and the recording is high quality.
01) Madder Red
The familiar opening chords, with a bit of a looping effect. The sound of a cheering crowd to remind you that you're listening to a live record.
"It's getting hard to keep pretending I'm worth your time."
The chanting vocals kick in and give me a surge of joy. I love this song.
As a preface to this review, let me tell you that I am generally unfamiliar with the genre of music known as 'dubstep'.
Help me out, Wikipedia: "Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South East London. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals."
Thanks, Wikipedia! Electronic artist James Blake released 3 EPs back in 2010 (all the way back!) that I understand are considered to be dubstep: The Bells Sketch, CMYK, and Klavierwerke. I would say they fit that description above pretty well.
In 2011, James Blake is ready to release a proper LP, and while his sound retains some elements of his previous work (I would say the tightly coiled productions and reverberation are definitely still here, and there is some 'clipping'), I'm not sure this quite qualifies as dubstep anymore. Vocals are no longer merely 'occasional' - he sings for most of the song, on every song. So I'd say James is an artist who started off making dubstep, and is now moving on to make straight up pop music, keeping certain elements of his old style. Post-dubstep then? Possibly. I'll leave that up to the dubstep experts to decide.
James Blake (the album) is a very impressive debut of electronics-based arty pop music. A lot of these songs are slow and restrained, but without being boring. He uses fucking auto-tune and I don't despise it. That alone is an accomplishment.
01) Unluck A slow tick-tocking beat starts us off. James starts crooning. He employs soulful white boy type vocals. And here comes the auto-tune! The simple beat is joined by a crescendo of electronic noises.
Repetition factors heavily into the James Blake sound. He'll repeat the same line over + over as the sound behind him changes it up.
Don't forget! The 2nd season of Archer premieres tonight at 10pm on FX. Really fucking funny. Archer is a secret agent. There's action, dirty humor, office humor, and a phenomenal voice cast.
I mentioned this before, but it's kind of a bummer that 30 Rock, which is now airing at 10pm as well, on NBC, is now in conflict with Archer. These are two of the funniest shows on television, and there are not that many quality comedies on television! Like you can count all of them currently on the air with your two hands, and you probably won't even use all of your fingers.
Point is, there are a whole bunch of primetime timeslots with nothing but garbage on TV, so why is 10pm on Thursday so jam packed with comedy? Luckily, I have a DVR. Otherwise this would be a serious issue.
Also on tonight, Ricky Gervais guests on The Office! He was Michael Scott before there was a Michael Scott. My excitement was abated slightly when I heard Ricky will only be appearing as a 'cameo', but still. The Office airs at 9pm on NBC.
With The Suburbs, Arcade Fire have crafted their most straightforward rock record yet - I find this to be much less orchestral than both Funeral and Neon Bible. Considering my proclivities for weird, electronics/synth, danceable, hazy and reverb-soaked, chillwave, and shoegaze music, Arcade Fire are where I get my quality earnest rock music from in 2010.
The band definitely knows how to pick a theme and stick to it, make it the concept for an entire record. With Funeral, I picked up on a theme of death, life and youth. Neon Bible was about the crooked, corrupt establishment. I don't need to tell you what the theme for The Suburbs is.
01) The Suburbs
I love this song - this is an anthem. The piano line saunters in, kinda like walking into a saloon.
"Grab your mother's keys, we're leaving!"
Win Butler sings lyrics about wanting a daughter while he's still young. "Or if that's too much to ask, too much to ask...send me a son". These lyrics resonate greatly with me. I'm 28 and ready to start a family, but I have no idea when that's going to happen.
02) Ready to Start
This is a bouncy number to get things going after the 'mission statement' opener title track.
"My mind is open wide, and now I'm ready to start".
03) Modern Man
As you might guess from the title, a song about the modern condition - something's off about the way we're living, even if you can't quite but your finger on it.
"Maybe when you're older you'll understand, why you don't feel right, why you can't sleep at night now".
There are some of the surges of emotion that Arcade Fire are known for, but much more subtle, smaller-scale than usual.
of Montreal have announced they will be releasing an EP called The Controller Sphere this spring. This means that the 3 most recent releases from the group will all be phrases uttered by frontman Kevin Barnes in the song "Farberge Falls for Shuggie", from their greatest album Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?.
"Skeletal lamping, the controller sphere, false priest"
The songs to be included on The Controller Sphere all originate from the sessions for last year's False Priest, but according to Kevin, they will be "a bit noisier and a little less groove-based", and some are "just a bit artier".
Sounds cool, Kevin. I didn't get into False Priest as much as expected. Perhaps this release will grab me more. Definitely looking forward to it.
The Strokes have announced the tracklisting for their new record Angles, which drops March 22.
01) MachuPicchu
02) Under Cover of Darkness
03) Two Kinds of Happiness
04) You're So Right
05) Taken for a Fool
06) Games
07) Call Me Back
08) Gratisfaction
09) Metabolism
10) Life Is Simple in the Moonlight
Curiously, there's still no official album art. Usually when we've got a new album's title, tracklisting and release date, we've got the album art too. That new promo shot of the band above will have to do in the meantime.
Track #2, "Under Cover of Darkness", is supposed to be the first single off the record.
Ducktails is the 'side project' of Real Estate guitarist Matthew Mondanile. As Ducktails, Matthew makes easygoing lo-fi pop music. It's nice and relaxing.
The latest from the project is Ducktails III: Arcade Dynamics, which was just released last week.
I love how the album has a song called "Art Vandelay" - that was one of the made-up names from George Costanza in Seinfeld.
This game is the shit. Super Scribblenauts for the Nintendo DS has you playing a dude named Maxwell, who can create anything with his magical pencil. That part's not really explained, but it doesn't matter.
Maxwell is presented with situations and puzzles. In order to solve the puzzles and advance, you can create nearly any object you can think of - just write it in your notebook and it will appear.
So you can write "Giant Red Dinosaur", and you've got one. Now say you're sick of that dinosaur, you can write "Missile Launcher", arm Maxwell with it, and take the dinosaur out. Write "Wings" and equip Maxwell with them, now you can fly.
The concept is so creative, and it's very well executed. There's a beautifully hand drawn art style. Since you can create virtually anything, all the puzzles have multiple solutions.
I haven't even gotten into this feature yet, as I'm still playing through the main game, but you can even create your own levels and share them with others. I think I'll get a kick out of creating some of my own levels, that'll be sweet.
Panda Bear's 4th LP Tomboy is finally a reality, with a firm release date (April 19), and now a tracklisting:
01) You Can Count On Me 02) Tomboy 03) Slow Motion 04) Surfer's Hymn 05) Last Night At the Jetty 06) Drone 07) Alsatian Darn
08) Scheherezade
09) Friendship Bracelet 10) Afterburner 11) Benfica
Very happy to see "Slow Motion" on here, not that there was any doubt, as it's my favorite of the bunch of songs Panda Bear released in 2010. I probably could have done without "Drone", but whatever. Maybe the new mix for the album will be more interesting.
01) Wavves - Mutant 02) Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month 03) Bear In Heaven - Ultimate Satisfaction 04) LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit 05) Starfucker - Julius 06) Best Coast - The End 07) Destroyer - Chinatown 08) Small Black - Photojournalist 09) Yeasayer - Many Waves 10) No Age - Fever Dreaming 11) Cut Copy - Where I'm Going 12) James Blake - I Never Learnt to Share 13) Arcade Fire - Rococo 14) The Black Keys - Everlasting Light 15) Deerhunter - Memory Boy
Starfucker are my latest musical crush. I'm addicted to their new record Reptilians, which I thought was their debut, but is actually their sophomore album, as it turns out. Their first record is a self-titled affair, and I'm familiarizing myself with it now. Not quite as amazing as Reptilians, but solid.
Starfucker are also known as STRFKR. The acronym does a handy job of covering up the profanity, when the need to do so arises. Not as easy to say aloud as Em Gee Em Tee (MGMT) though.
The band is playing Bowery Ballroom on 4/2. Here's their full tour schedule:
03/08 – San Francisco, CA – Independent 03/09 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop 03/11 – W. Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour 03/12 – Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit Bar 03/13 – Phoenix, AZ – The Trunk Space 03/14 – Santa Fe, NM – VFW 03/15-03/19 – SXSW 03/20 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s Downstairs 03/22 – Birmingham, AL – Bottletree Cafe 03/23 – Atlanta, GA – The Drunken Unicorn 03/25 – Tampa, FL – Crowbar 03/26 – Orlando, FL – Backbooth 03/27 – Jacksonville, FL – Jack Rabbits 03/29 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 03/30 – Washington DC – Rock and Roll Hotel 03/31 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s 04/01 – Plains, PA – River Street Jazz Cafe 04/02 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom 04/05 – Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall 04/06 – Portland, ME – Space Gallery 04/07 – Ithaca, NY – Delilah’s @ Ithaca College 04/08 – S. Burlington, VT – Higher Ground 04/09 – Rochester, NY – The Bug Jar 04/10 – Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop 04/11 – Columbus, OH – Skully’s 04/12 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall 04/14 – Minneapolis, MN – Triple Rock Social Club 04/15 – Sioux Falls, SD – Orpheum 04/16 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room 04/17 – Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater 04/19 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court – Early Show 04/19 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge – Late Show 04/21 – Boise, ID – Neurolux 04/22 – Vancouver, BC – The Biltmore Cabaret 04/23 – Seattle, WA – The Vera Project 04/26 – Seattle, WA – The Crocodile 04/28 – Portland, OR – Holocene 04/29 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge 04/30 - Portland, OR – MS Studios
Last.fm is an awesome music service that, among other things, can make a log of the music you listen to, keeping track of the stats. Logging your music is called 'scrobbling'.
Last.fm Trends takes a look at listening data across all of its users and identifies, you guessed it, trends. I work in market research and analyze data all the time, and I'm obsessed with music. This site was essentially designed for me.
01) Wolf Parade - Ghost Pressure 02) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round 03) Wavves - Baseball Cards 04) Kanye West feat. Bon Iver - Lost In the World
05) Toro Y Moi - Low Shoulder 06) MGMT - It's Working
07) Arcade Fire - City With No Children 08) Tame Impala - Runway, Houses, City, Clouds 09) Eminem - Going Through Changes 10) Spoon - I Saw the Light 11) Real Estate - Beach Comber 12) The New Pornographers - Silver Jenny Dollar 13) The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio 14) Girls - Heartbreaker 15) Bear In Heaven - Lovesick Teenagers 16) of Montreal - Enemy Gene
Warner Bros. has announced casting news for the next Batman movie, titled The Dark Knight Rises.
Anne Hathaway will be playing Catwoman. Sounds like a great idea to me. The movie needs a babe, and Hathaway definitely qualifies. It's also nice if the babe actually dresses up in leather and joins in the action, rather than being a mere 'damsel in distress'.
There had been much speculation about who would be the villain in this installment. The Riddler and Hugo Strange had been tossed around a lot, but it appears the villain of this flick will be Bane, played by Tom Hardy.
Again, I approve. Bane showed up in the dreadful Batman and Robin, but he was more poorly underused than Venom was in Spider-Man 3. Bane is supposed to be a highly intelligent foe, given ridiculous strength and muscles because of a drug pumped into his system called...venom. In Batman and Robin, Bane was a full-on retard lackey of Poison Ivy who said almost nothing, and had like 3 minutes of screen time in total.
I have no doubt that Christopher Nolan's interpretation of the character will be a badass, and will prove a worthy foe for Batman.
Now this was a cool surprise! Death From Above 1979 (DFA 1979 if you hate words, but like acronyms and numbers) have announced they are reuniting to play Coachella, that music festival they have out there in California.
Death From Above 1979 are a duo featuring only bass and drums, and they made kick-ass rock music with those 2 instruments. They released one great album called You're A Woman, I'm A Machine, and then they were never heard from again...until now, that is.
I hope that DFA 1979 will actually stick together and record new songs, and this isn't just a Rage Against The Machine style 'we'll play a festival and that will be that' type of reunion. You don't have enough material to coast on, dudes!
Tomorrow night, Thursday 1/20, NBC launches a 3-hour comedy block starting at 8pm. This would be kind of revolutionary if it wasn't really 2 hours of comedy (Community, The Office, Parks and Recreation,and 30 Rock) padded with 1 hour of garbage (Outsourced and Perfect Couples).
To be fair, I've never actually seen an episode of Perfect Couples...but it looks pretty fucking bad. I doubt I will be proven wrong.
Anyway, the real headline is that after being 'benched' for the fall, Parks and Recreation is back for a 3rd season! This show has developed into one of the best comedies on television, and the fact that it was left off the fall schedule is criminal.
If you haven't seen it before, Parks and Rec follows the adventures of a parks department government office, employing the pseudo documentary style of The Office. What makes the show work is a really strong all around ensemble cast.
9:30pm tomorrow on NBC. Set your DVRs.
Nintendo of America have announced US launch details for their new portable system, the Nintendo 3DS, which, in addition to more graphical horsepower than the current DS, projects a 3D image that you can see without having to wear special glasses.
The Nintendo 3DS will hit stores on Sunday, March 27. The suggested retail price is $249.99.
The $250 price point is exactly what I predicted...$300 would have been a bit too expensive for a portable gaming machine, and Nintendo knows how to price their machines well - the Wii's pricing is one of the factors that contributed to its massive mainstream success.
Nintendo has yet to announce which launch titles will be available on Day 1. Here's hoping for Kid Icarus: Uprising and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.
Starfucker, based in Portland, Oregon, have produced my early frontrunner for favorite album of 2011 in Reptilians. Yes, it's still January. Nonetheless!
The Starfucker sound employs electronics, video game bleeps, synth, angelic vocals, and spoken word segments - check out the 'contemplation of death' segment that precedes "Death As A Fetish". It all comes together into a sound that's surprisingly warm (this record is getting me through this horrible winter) and addictive (I've been spinning this one over + over).
Reptilians officially drops March 8. You can order a CD or clear vinyl (!) from Polyvinyl here, and you'll get a high quality (320kbps) MP3 copy of the album immediately. I highly recommend it.
I only just got into Kurt Vile, and am currently enjoying his most recent album Childish Prodigy. But time and tide wait for no man - Kurt has a new album dropping March 8. It's called Smoke Ring for My Halo.
Smoke Ring for My Halo tracklisting:
01) Baby's Arms 02) Jesus Fever 03) Puppet to the Man 04) On Tour 05) Society Is My Friend 06) Runner Ups 07) In My Time 08) Peeping Tomboy 09) Smoke Ring for My Halo 10) Ghost Town
Realized I never got around to covering this...incredibly prolific musician Bradford Cox, after producing one of the finest records of 2010 as Deerhunter (Halcyon Digest), went on to release 4 albums as Atlas Sound in the course of a week.
Now, as crazy as that is, these aren't albums proper. Collections of demos might be more appropriate. I'd imagine that, as the name suggests, these songs were simply recorded in Bradford's bedroom.
Not all of the tracks are noteworthy, but there's definitely some gold here.
I only just posted on the new Wavves / Best Cost split single Summer Is Forever, which contains one new Wavves tune titled "Stained Glass (Why Don't You Let Me Into Your Heart)", and now the band is offering up another new tune for free. It's called "Mutant".
Nathan mentioned in his tweet that "Mutant" may be released as a 7" single later, and it may be included as a b-side for the Japanese release of King of the Beach. Do the Japanese not buy American albums unless they come loaded with a bunch of bonus tracks? 'Cause they always seem to get them.
I love the whistling part of this track, so good.
You can download "Mutant" here.
Kinda funny that all the reports say Tomboy is 'finally' coming out, as if it's been delayed for years. Everyone expected this record to be released in 2010, but it just didn't go down like that.
Panda Bear's 4th solo record now has firm release date of April 19. No tracklisting yet, but the 3 singles Panda released in 2010 - "Tomboy", "You Can Count on Me" and "Last Night At the Jetty" - will all be included, but with new mixes, courtesy of Sonic Boom, who notably produced MGMT's sophomore album Congratulations.
The first image of Andrew Garfield in costume as the new Spider-Man has surfaced. Looks great! I got a feeling Garfield was right for the part after I saw him in The Social Network. The Spidey suit looks a bit more like a real costume than in the Sam Raimi / Tobey Maguire flicks. I dig.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay late to the party on this one, but I write about whatever I'm currently into on this blog, regardless. Dexter is an awesome television program airing on Showtime about a 'serial killer with a conscience' living in Miami.
See, Dexter Morgan has an uncontrollable urge to kill. His adopted father Harry recognized this tendency in Dexter early on, as he was growing up. Harry taught Dexter a code for dealing with who he is - not getting caught is the #1 rule. As part of the code, Dexter only kills people who deserve it - fellow killers.
Dexter also has an inside track as a blood analyst as part of the Miami PD. The show centers around Dexter's struggle to live a normal life while moonlighting as a killer. We also follow the adventures of Dexter's sister Deborah, who also works at the Miami PD as a detective (and knows nothing about Dexter's secret).
The production values of the show are top notch - you need only look at the genius opening sequence, which depicts Dexter performing seemingly menacing acts, only to turn out completely harmless - he's just eating breakfast, getting ready for work, etc.
If you haven't seen Dexter, you can find the first two seasons available on Netflix Instant. I have blazed through the series, having gone through four seasons, with one more to go. The 6th season of Dexter will air at some point in 2011.
I had no idea who Kurt Vile was, but I saw that Atlas Sound covered his song "Freak Train" on the first volume of his Bedroom Databank series. An endorsement from Bradford Cox is good enough for me, so I listened to Kurt Vile's current record Childish Prodigy.
I'm really glad I did - this is a great record. Singer-songwriter with a harmonica type music. He has a free flowing vocal style that kind of reminds me of Dan Bejar, but with a totally different delivery.
Anyway, Kurt Vile has a new record coming out shortly, which I'll cover in another post. But definitely check the dude's music out.
In the middle of another horrible New York winter, there are few sentiments I can behind more so than 'Summer Is Forever'. California groups Best Coast and Wavves are touring together, and as celebration they have released a split single under that title.
The single features one new song from each group, as well as a sampler track from each of their 2010 records, Best Coast's Crazy for You and Wavves' King of the Beach.
New Wavves cut "Stained Glass (Won't You Let Me Into Your Heart)" kinda sounds like Wavves doing a groovy MGMT song - what's there for me to not like?
New Best Coast tune "When You Wake Up" is super catchy - after a few listens, it has firmly lodged itself into my brain. "It's always 11:30...when you wake up."
The collection closes with "Hawaii", from tour openers No Joy. It's the first I've ever heard of the group, sounds pretty good.
So it sounds like we won't be hearing an entire album from Kanye West and Jay-Z in a week's time. Their album Watch the Throne is reportedly officially dropping March 1st. But we will be hearing the first single from said album by next Tuesday, January 11.
The new single is called "H.A.M.". That stands for Hatin' Ass Motherfuckers. So this is gonna be another song picking on haters. What did haters ever do to you? Oh, right. Anyway, that cover art above is pretty awesome, and I do not expect this track to disappoint. Anticipation!
01) of Montreal - Spike the Senses 02) The xx - Heart Skipped a Beat 03) Micachu - Calculator 04) Yeasayer - Red Cave 05) The Strokes - Reptila 06) Girls - Lust for Life 07) The New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed 08) Deerhunter - Twilight At Carbon Lake 09) James Blake - Limit to Your Love 10) The National - Anyone's Ghost 11) Atlas Sound - Talent Show 12) The Go! Team - Secretary Song 13) MGMT - Song for Dan Treacy 14) Wolf Parade - Yulia 15) No Age - Shed and Transcend 16) Twin Shadow - Castles In the Snow
The Go! Team are back with their 3rd album, titled Rolling Blackouts. Drops February 1st.
Here's the tracklisting: 01) T.O.R.N.A.D.O. 02) Secretary Song
03) Apollo Throwdown
04) Ready to Go Steady
05) Bust-Out Brigade
06) Buy Nothing Day
07) Super Triangle
08) Voice Yr Choice
09) Yosemite Theme
10) The Running Range
11) Lazy Poltergeist
12) Rolling Blackouts
Not satisfied with the tons of 'Album of the Year' accolades he collected with his latest record My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Kanye West made an 'off the cuff' remark during his New Year's Eve performance suggesting that his collaborative record with Jay-Z Watch the Throne would be available in a week's time!
Could be bullshit, but honestly, it's not out of the question that the record could be done and ready for release.
Dave Sitek, guitarist for TV on the Radio, Maximum Balloon mastermind, and producer extraordinaire, is working on the new Jane's Addiction record, playing bass. Holy shit! Sounds like a very interesting pairing.
Honestly, this news doubles my interest in the new Jane's record. I've been a huge fan of Jane's - Nothing Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual are classics. I wasn't expecting too much from a new record though. Sitek's involvement gives me hope this could actually turn out to be a great record. We shall see.
The new album from Jane's is scheduled to drop this summer.
MGMT's sophomore record Congratulations is awesome, you guys. Face facts.
The band stopped by Daytrotter (is it really a place?) and recorded a session. Fantastic semi-stripped-down versions of "Song for Dan Treacy", "It's Working" and "I Found A Whistle". Also a cover of "Only A Shadow" by The Cleaners from Venus.
On Christmas Day, Yeasayer surprisingly dropped a live album. This was fantastic news for me, as I had been scouring the internet for any Yeasayer bootlegs with no success.
You can download Yeasayer Live At Ancienne Belgique directly from the band here.
The band follows Radiohead's model for In Rainbows and allows you to choose your own price...including free.
The recording is from their show on October 28, 2010. Set is a solid mix of material from All Hour Cymbals and Odd Blood, as well as the beloved "Tightrope" from the Dark Was the Night compilation.
