YEASAYER RESCHEDULING STATEMENT **Due to family reasons we have to postpone our September 2012 European
tour. Everyone is fine, and we are regrouping and trying to reschedule
for the end of Nov/ beginning of Dec. We promise to make our way across
the Atlantic in support of Fragrant World. We appreciate your
understanding and we promise to make this up to you!** Yeasayer will release their anticipated new album
Fragrant World ìn August on Mute, the follow up to 2010’s crossover hit
Odd Blood. Having set the internet alight with the teaser track
‘Henrietta’ last month, as well as Zane Lowe’s ‘Hottest Record In The
World Right Now’ on Radio 1, the psychedelic experimentalists from
Brooklyn are set to make an assured return with their most accomplished
album to date. Odd Blood was widely regarded as one of the
best albums of 2010, hitting everyone’s end of year lists including
NME, Mojo, Q, Uncut, The Fly and The Sunday Times. A hard act to follow,
certainly, but Fragrant World does not disappoint. Produced once again
by Yeasayer themselves (and mixed by Dan Carey), it is a
wholly immersive record. Keyboards clank and wheeze, tiny claps stumble
against busted drum machines, and there's very little obvious guitar.
It is an album that grapples with the schizophrenia of the modern world
by gathering piles of electronics and moulding them into something vast
and rather gorgeous. Couched in healthy fear, yet
unafraid to move forward and expand, pulling in new influences just as
frequently as new worries, Yeasayer have created a
dense and beautiful record. It is as much a synthesis of the last three
decades of pop music as it is a way of dealing with the oddities of
life. |