Odd Blood

Yeasayer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 9, 2010)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Secretly Canadian
• ASIN: B0030E5NKU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #59,093 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Since the release of their critically acclaimed 2007 debut All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer has been around the world and back again. While their first record was conceived in total artistic isolation, constant touring forced Yeasayer to finally engage with their contemporaries. If All Hour Cymbals was Yeasayer's attempt at global and ambient cultural mash-up then their new album, ODD BLOOD, takes place in an off-world colony sometime after the Singularity. Glimmering reverb haze is eschewed and replaced by a cavalcade of disorienting pitch effects and flickering ectoplasmic wisps.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm a Yeasayer..., February 8, 2010

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Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Odd Blood (MP3 Download)

US trio Yeasayer are musical magpies, cut from the same colourful cloth as acts like MGMT or Santogold. "Odd Blood" is their sophomore disc, comprising catchy jittery electronic Pop with a myriad of influences.

The woozy "Strange Reunions" has a Middle Eastern feel as does "Madder Red" (with a hummed wordless chorus), while the psychedelic clap-filled ballad "I Remember" is remniscent of "Animal Collective". At 10 tracks, no two songs are alike. Their debut CD was beautifully fractured psychedelic Folk/Pop, and they retain their strong sense of melody despite the change in style.

Other standouts are the Radiohead-style "The Children" (with eerie vocodered vocals and clanking beats), the tribal-sounding "O.N.E.", the progressively trancey "Love Me Girl" (my favourite), the bouncy "Rome" with stabbing syths & the experimental ballad "Grizelda".

Otherworldly and highly infectious!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Woah., February 8, 2010

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Josh Bubbles - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Odd Blood (MP3 Download)

All Hour Cymbals, Yeasayer's first album was a shambling, faded psychedelic romp through post-apocalyptic Africa and Asia. In contrast to that, this sophomore effort, Odd Blood, is a strange marriage of Animal Collective, Radiohead, The Knife, and Phoenix's dancy electro pop. Higher production values come with a complete 180 in terms of musical design, but I'll be damned if it isn't just as fun.

I admit, I enjoyed the old Yeasayer more in terms of genre, but slap me upside the head if I didn't say this wasn't one of the better records I've heard in a while. This new music's just as well written and certainly more mature, and the cheerier atmosphere makes it more approachable. It's a significant movement for the band and it makes me all the more excited for these talented musicians. At least no one can say Yeasayer took the easy way out.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Eighties come charging back, March 25, 2010

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Mark Wiatrowski "Listen to Real Music" (Williamsburg, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Odd Blood (Audio CD)

This is totally new wave. It's just remarkable. Yeasayer blew my mind with their first album. Literally. I could not think for an hour, just trying to realize what I just listened to. This one is a little more clear. It's totally Eighties pop music. It's just groovy and new-wavey.

Let's get to the really good songs. I loved "O.N.E.," because it was just something you could make a hit record out of. Forget Ke$ha, who should never have stayed at #1 for that long, and listen to real pop should-be hitmakers.

"Ambling Alp" was also just as good. A highlight here, with such beautiful sounds and lyrics.

"Madder Red" was pretty weird, but really good.

Among other highlights on this masterpiece are "I remember," "Rome," and the awesome "Love Me Girl."

In conclusion, buy this album or I will put a bumper sticker on your car saying "I don't listen to real music. I suck and have no life in the real world. I am stuck in what's popular and not what's good."