All Hour Cymbals

Yeasayer

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 23, 2007)
• Original Release Date: October 23, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: WE ARE FREE
• ASIN: B000VLLYEY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,211 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Product Description

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.

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28 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "It's a new year... The future I was born into", October 25, 2007

By	Kevin Satterwhite (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

You know, writing about music, for me, is usually easy, but I have been sitting here for fifteen minutes figuring out how I can describe Yeasayers first album "All Hour Cymbals" with no avail. If I wanted to sum them up in one word it would be experimental, which as a label always grabs my attention. If someone asked me to detail that, I would have to say they are best described in one breath as: spiritual/dreamy/atmospheric/experimental indie electronic/gospel/folk/pop/rock. Deciding how to describe their sound is difficult. However, enjoying the product of their eccentric-ness is easier than pressing play on my player.

The album starts off in dramatic fashion with "Sunshine," one of two songs released as a single. The other song being "2028," both are different beasts entirely as well as the best of show. "Sunshine" is a track that features Yeasayers at their dreamy best. The pounding drums, the clacking sticks, pianos, synths and eclectic-gospel "wooing" is a recipe for conjuring pure magic.

"2028," the other 'best of show' starts off with muffled pounding drums, followed shortly by another dreamy melody, this time by an electric guitar; and a lovely piano melody follows shortly after that. The vocals are stellar on this track.

The rest of the album is no slacker. There are other stand out tracks. "Wait For The Summer" is a good pop song. It starts off like a dreamy Beatles track with a kind of chanting vocals and what I can only guess is a seetar (an Indian string instrument). The synths on this one are great. "Germs" starts off quiet but picks up when the drum and accordion are introduced. From that moment, the song moves from atmospheric to hypnotizing. "Worms" is such a peaceful, relaxed track. The falsetto chorus of it is soothing. "Final Path" sounds a bit like an 80s goth rock song and is one of my personal favorites.

There are other songs worth mentioning. However, I will leave the rest for you to review. I merely offer a guiding hand, if you will, introducing this new entry into the world of indie experimentalism. Fans of The Arcade Fire, Menomena, experimentalism, later Animal Collective, The Cure, dreamy pop, The Twilight Sad and good sounds in general should heed my words and capitalize from the collection of this wonderful album.

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Album of the Year, November 20, 2007

By	Felix Matathias (Manhattan, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

There is no question about it. I am a huge Radiohead fun and was expecting the new album with great anticipation. Nevertheless more than a month after its release I find myself listening to "All Hour Cymbals" repeatedly instead of "In Rainbows". The same with Arcade's Fire "Neon Album" which I also had at the top of my list for 2007. The same with the LCD Soundystem album and the Nationals's album, other strong contenders. Nothing compares to this album. It is new, unique, strange, classy, mysterious, melodic. Definitely album of the year for me.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Debut Album, October 29, 2007

By	David Z. Robertson "Dave Zerk Robertson" (Sao Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I caught the Yeasayer live in DC and it was great show. I think the album definitely lives up to the live rendition.

How to classify? Difficult, but I would say smoothly transitioned "experimental", landscaped indie rock with a twinges of international influences (Persian comes to mind). I also hear progressive and 80s influences. Sometimes experimental is can be often awkward, but this album fuses different sounds and layers together brilliantly.

This album reminds me of The Earlies debut; however a bit more upbeat and less produced.

Very, very cool album and I would highly recommend.