yeasayer, tonight and tomorrow night.

Yeasayer, one of Brooklyn's most innovative acts, is playing tonight and tomorrow night at the Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg respectively.  If you haven't already checked out Yeasayer I highly suggest you do so.  Yeasayer is formed of vocalist/keyboardist Chris Keating, vocalist/guitarist Anand Wilder, bassist Ira Wolf Tuton and drummer Luke Fasano.  Keating and Wilder played together in high school in Sic Transit and a barbershop quartet, honing their musicianship on multiple fronts.  After splitting for college, the two reunited in Brooklyn in 2006 with drummer and bassist.  Since then, they have steadily risen to critical acclaim in the blog and zine world.    Their first album, All Hour Cymbals, is an eclectic journey through genres and tenses, exploring many instrumental combinations.  Yeasayer does not limit their arrangements on All Hour Cymbals to any single instrumentation utilizing synthesizers, guitars, a double bass, horns, violins, marimbas, an accordion, involved vocal harmonies and all sorts of percussion instruments, accumulating an amalgamation of subtle and profound sounds that will compliment your brain completely.

Yeasayer's latest release was a preface EP to the Odd Blood LP, slated for release on February 9.  The Odd Blood LP, according to Yeasayer in an interview with Rolling Stone, was partially based on an intense acid trip in New Zealand and incorporates Ray Kurzweil's theory that computer intelligence will eventually supersede the human mind.  The Odd Blood EP contains the first single off the Odd Blood LP, entitled "Ambling Alp," as well as another catchy track, "O.N.E."

Opening for Yeasayer at Music Hall of Williamsburg is Javelin and Class Actress.  This will be the first and only US show that Javelin and Yeasayer will be playing together on a February UK tour.  I had the opportunity to catch Javelin at House of Yes a couple weeks ago who, despite some crippling technical difficulties, kept the energy and subsequently the crowd alive.  They are definitely worth seeing and I'm sure that Music Hall of Williamsburg will do a better job of managing their high-power rig (Javelin plays out of a stack of boom boxes, seriously).

I got busted by the asshole record companies for having these tracks up so I had to remove the links.  You'd think that while I'm encouraging people to go to shows and providing the tracks to wet appetites, the companies that are getting paid for ticket sales would let me post these files. If anyone wants these tracks, I will send you the links via email. Big middle finger to the wealthy businessmen who contacted google.


Yeasayer - 2080
Yeasayer - Sunrise
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp (Alan Wilkis Remix)
Yeasayer - O.N.E.
Yeasayer - The Children

Lots of love,
Jake