Yeasayer

It's been a good couple of week for live gigs here in Wellington. i've already blogged about Willard Grant Conspiracy, last week I caught Yeasayer - promoting their 2007 album 'All Hour Cymbols) . What an awesome gig. the band have quite a different sound, Simon Sweetman mused recently that he was wondering who of the new hip bands would push on to something new. His suggestion was Yeasayer. I'm not as sure, they are certainly unique, but only having one album makes it a bit hard to judge.
Sonically it can be summed up as 80s synth meets world meets prog. There are elements of CSN, Beach Boys, RealWorld artists (now there's a catchall!), bits of Talking Heads (but not enough to piss me off like TH) and then some widdly keyboard bits over strange rhythms that wouldn't be out of place on a Peter Gabriel record.
The crowd were really up for them, I'm not sure how much they'd heard from the band, but their infectious vibe (the bands, not the crowds, that came later) was, well, infectious. And the rhythms were cool - their drummer is incredible. the falsetto vocal acrobatics of the lead singer (all the band sing) were quite impressive too.

I really can't do this gig justice for how good it was, and how good and different the band are.

Sound samples are available here, and their main website is here.

me x