Yeasayer
Ambling Alp

This record left our Brett feeling happy.

Yeasayer got's a new album coming out soon and the 'Ambling Alp' remix 12" is their little warning shot. Their first album didn't do masses for me but this single's quite cool (though not as cool as these weird video things) and far more electronic than I remember them being, with its fine, busy programming and forceful pop hooks evoking a bit of a 80s club feel whilst being far more complex and modern than that might imply. Oddly enough I'm reminded of The Faint, I think it's the vocals in particular. DJ/rupture busts out the Echoplex and takes things deeper, as you might expect, while Memory Tapes take the opposite approach, cranking the vocal and boosting the pop elements. The instrumental mix rounds out quite a tidy package, making me think that this is probably how 12"s of album tracks should probably all be done in this day and age.

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What their label says...

Hello Again Music Enthusiast,

It has been 2 full years since I last wrote about Yeasayer's debut album All Hour Cymbals and prophesied on the power of their music. I could rejoice in the accuracy of the claims but we are merely in the beginning of the Yeasayer life cycle...there is work to be done.

After 3 white winter months (Feb-Apr '09) in upstate NY at the Marotta cabin, Yeasayer wrote and layered songs for #2 (album title TBA). The tracks were then transported to Great City in NYC for mixing and the microscope.

Out of these sessions came "Ambling Alp," which we elected as the first single for Yeasayer #2. A stand out from their recent live set, the band reworked the song into its former: a pop anthem.

The 12" single contains remixes by friends Memory Tapes and DJ/rupture and is Yeasayer's first release on US label Secretly Canadian.

To celebrate the release of the "Ambling Alp" 12" we will be unleashing a breakthrough video at yeasayer.net on the evening of October 30th. Hush-hush we must be regarding this activity but we promise something pioneering.

More soon regarding movement in early 2010.

Best.

Sir James Winnie
YSR MGR

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