Yeasayer
The music of Brooklyn's Yeasayer is an eclectic, genre-bending journey into pop, rock, Middle Eastern and African musics, folk, and dub. Vocalist/keyboardist Chris Keating and vocalist/guitarist Anand Wilder were both raised in Baltimore, where they honed their vocal skills in a barbershop quartet and played in a high-school band, Sic Transit, before leaving town to attend different colleges. Years later, the two relocated to New York and began shaping the project that would soon become Yeasayer. Wilder's cousin, Ira Wolf Tuton, joined as the group's bassist,...[more]
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Their debut rides off the release of the single, "2080/Sunrise" that garnered stacks of nice press quotes. The album is a mesmerizing journey, and quite overwhelming for a premiere release. Live, this group brings out the boogie, radiating heat waves and rhythms. Songs once laid to tape are constantly restructured and reworked, show to show, for a new experience.
CD $12.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Yeasayer wrote and layered songs for their upcoming release, , during the white winter months of Feb-Apr '09 in upstate NY. Out of these sessions came "Ambling Alp," which is the first single for . A stand out from their recent live set, the band reworked the song into its former incarnation: a pop anthem. This 12" single contains remixes by friends Memory Tapes and DJ/rupture and is Yeasayer's first release on US label Secretly Canadian.
12" $8.99
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"2080" is Fleetwood Mac, Akron/Family, Paul Simon, Arcade Fire, Cree chant, schoolyard song. It's dancing alone under a streetlight, in your room with the lights on, or in a club on those hot strange first hours of the new year. It's a night garden. It's a pop song. It's soft rock, New Wave, and art music. It's got heart-thump drums, distant xylophone, clarinet, guitars, voices in harmony. It's got piano and backwards-playing tape. It's got the kitchen sink -- and all these things under starlight. - Said th [ read more ]
CDep $5.95
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This is a blue Yeasayer shirt in a size MEDIUM featuring a large graphic of a hand in red.
Medium Shirt $19.99
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This is a blue Yeasayer shirt in a size SMALL featuring a large graphic of a hand in red.
Small Shirt $19.99
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Their debut rides off the release of the single, '2080/Sunrise' that garnered stacks of nice press quotes. The album is a mesmerizing journey, and quite overwhelming for a premiere release. Live, this group brings out the boogie, radiating heat waves and rhythms. Songs once laid to tape are constantly restructured and reworked, show to show, for a new experience.
MP3 $7.99
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This is a blue Yeasayer shirt in a size LARGE featuring a large graphic of a hand in red.
Large Shirt $19.99
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This is a blue Yeasayer shirt in a size EXTRA LARGE featuring a large graphic of a hand in red.
X-Large Shirt $19.99
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Broken Spindles Fulfilled/Complete , The Decemberists Girl's Blue T-shirt, Hot Snakes Bat Red T-Shirt