<% name="programma" showHeaderA showHeaderC showDate %> <% showPicture %> <% showBandname %> <% showColor %> bgcolor="#007ebb" <% showText %> Yeasayer accomplishes no small task: transcending genre. Yeasayer make a baroque folk-rock that sounds both futurist and tribalist at once. Fashioning a casually-indefinable collage of four-part harmonies, junkyard percussion, horror-movie synth squelches, and spidery guitar-lines. 'What we're setting out to do, is not back ourselves into a corner,' said bassist Ira Wolf Tuton. 'Because once you're in a corner you're in that corner. Once bands are in genres, it's very hard for them to redefine themselves.'

Yeasayer first found attention outside of NY at the SXSW festival early in 2007. After releasing their first single, '2080', Yeasayer finished off their impressive debut LP, 'All Hour Cymbals'. Released to a warm critical reception, the record elevated Yeasayer, almost immediately, into the ranks of important indie acts.

Having garnered an audience, Yeasayer set about working on a second album that they hoped would confound their followers. Recorded over a snowy winter in upstate New York, 2010's 'Odd Blood', the band's second album, proved a worthy successor. Building upon the unique sound they'd founded, it was a more dynamic, instantly-accessible work indebted to dance and electronic music, with lyrics far more straight-ahead. <% showTicketsAlbum %> <% showLinks %> <% showAlbumInfo %> Odd Blood
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