Yeasayer return with ‘Ambling Alp’
‘Odd Blood’, due February 2010, has just given us a sign. ‘Ambling Alp’ is the lead single, due for release digitally this November from Secretly Canadian. You can get it with one of those awesome t-shirts and vinyl as the colourful picture above demonstrates so well.
And so the song: Well, it’s a difficult one to get your head around. Life-affirming, triumphant are the two superlatives that come to mind. It’s more balanced and streamlined than anything on ‘All Hour Cymbals’, complicated horn sections such as those you craved for TV On The Radio to unleash on ‘Dear Science’ but to no avail, come out of nowhere mid-way after an underwater-ish sounding opening gives you few clues as to where the song could go. So in summary this is unpredictable, rewarding listen and the perfect indicator signal for how ‘Odd Blood’ could turn out.
mp3// download from Yeasayer’s site
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