Yeasayer

Yeasayer doesn’t just boast a unique sound—an all-over combination of Eastern music and psychedelic rock, tribal chants, and soaring harmonies—it proposes an entirely new syntax, as if the Brooklyn band discovered a previously unknown musical language. Last year’s Odd Blood expands that language beyond the multicultural pastiche of 2007’s All Hour Cymbals to include snatches of global trip-hop and electro, while at the same time dialing back the sometimes off-putting yelps and squeals. The album’s latest single, “I Remember,” looks back wistfully across cascading pianos and 8-bit synth oscillations.

Updated 03/02/2011