Wednesday, 18 June 2008 |
Brooklyn quartet Yeasayer’s music
is a concoction of indie rock and worldbeat that should probably come
off as stilted and manufactured but the band instead, like a pack of
hip-shooting alchemists, mesh these genres together in experiments that
pay off brilliantly.
Guitars, sitars, mandolins, bongos,
cowbells, and fretless bass are all run through with driving
synthesisers, while ceaselessly harmonising vocals tend to stay deep in
the mixes, adding to the ethereal quality of their music.
Obvious
touchstones David Byrne and Peter Gabriel would be proud to turn out
music as brilliant and thoroughly engaging as this. By Matt Shea.
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Yeasayer - '2080' 
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