Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
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Free Music Review: great album
Hit: 5 Stars
I'll agree that Yeasayer has done something unique on this album. I'm not really one to make a big deal classifying music, so the genre Amazon gives it, experimental rock, is good enough.
Their music highlights my sense of self-awareness. It accomplishes this through layered vocals and echoed guitar. To be honest, I can't make out what the lead singer is even saying most of the time, but that has done little to affect my enjoyment of this album. Very original stuff.
Free Music Review: Say Yes to Yeasayer
Hit: 5 Stars
Hey, remember the days when albums gave birth to singles and not vice versa? Let alone, when musicians gathered all their wits and created cohesive albums, albums with concept, albums like a journey? I don't know, The Beatles' White Album comes to mind where the songs are interwoven and placed carefully and deliberately in between, before and after and you start thinking about transitions, you look back at it as a collective experience. Like others have mentioned, there is no way to categorize Yeasayer. I'd say that each member of the band adds their own magic touch to the tracks and their diverse experiences collide (positively of course). I wouldn't say there is a frontman because each of them plays a pivotal role...and this joy of music making, of togetherness resonates in the album and definitely on stage. A must-see live; you'll never leave a concert feeling so good, so inspired. I suppose the most appropriate categorization I've seen for this band is simply "world," because it is humble, inspired, sometimes folky, definitely rhythmic, and there are elements of that~ somewhere on this dusty planet people don't have enough food and water but they sure as hell have music....I suppose that is how I'd summarize "world" and thus, Yeasayer.Free Music Review: Old sounds made new
Hit: 4 Stars
The debut album from the band Yeasayer isn't necessarily one that's going to reach out and grab you right off the bat. Instead, you are more likely to find yourself humming a short refrain or repeating a couple of melodic lyrics and wondering where it came from. The music can seem almost overwhelming at moments, but is actually comprised of many simple parts all layered into a rich whole. The members use a lot of Eastern sounds, specifically reminiscent of Indian music, along with multiple vocal tracks and a dash of indie rock sensibilities. The result is something resembling a Bollywood soundtrack, a drum circle, Built to Spill, and Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Undoubtedly the strongest track on the album, "2080" may make a good litmus test for anyone unsure if that sounds like something they might enjoy. And that's understandable. It's a mixture of sounds that could fall apart at any stage of production. If the vocalists weren't all good singers, if the percussionists weren't solid, if the levels weren't mixed down just perfectly then any of the songs could quickly become grating, but track after track comes together nicely. They might not all get stuck in your head, but the worst thing you can say about any given song on All Hour Cymbals is that it's a really nice song. For the best tracks, they've created songs that combine a sense of ancient history with new sounds.
Recommended tracks: Again, "2080" is the best song on the album. If you don't like it, you likely won't care for anything else here. "Sunrise" is another great track which allows the music to come more to the forefront. These two together represent the basic sounds of the album and, unsurprisingly, were the two chosen to be on the first single. "Wintertime" dips closer to the indie rock sounds, "Forgiveness" plays heavily with the chanting aspects, and the album comes to a nice close with "Red Cave", which sums up what the group is doing very well.
Free Music Review: My Daily Dose of "Nirvana"
Hit: 5 Stars
Honestly, this album is too much to put into words...to truly get what this album is like, you'd just have to listen to it for yourself. Everytime I listen to "Waiting For The Summer," I'm compelled to put everything that I'm doing down and just focus on the majestic beauty of the music. Listening to "Waiting For The Summer," "2080," and/or "Sunrise" in its entirety is the closest that any music will get you to a sense of nirvana.Free Music Review: These guys are good !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
I got this album after seeing these guys on Late Night with Conan last night and they are fantastic. When I heard them on Conan, they immediately reminded me of Radiohead but with their own unique style. I just listened to the whole album and the amazon samples don't do it justice because their songs have all sorts of elements and instruments and effects which grow like a story sort of like Radiohead songs, as well as Massive Attack. Check these guys out, definitely one of my new favorite bands.