Amen & Goodbye
The fourth album from Brooklyn’s Yeasayer cements them as one of the more eclectic and agile bands of the 21st century. *Amen & Goodbye* blends live instrumentation with electronic textures, full-throated indie rock with the rhythmic kink of R&B, and psychedelic atmospheres with firm, precise musicianship. From the *Dark Side*–era Pink Floyd chorale of “Daughters of Cain” to the Beck-like “I Am Chemistry” to the melancholic “Uma,” which sounds like a lost John Lennon sketch beamed in from a distant star, *Amen & Goodbye* plays like the soundtrack to a dystopia just beyond tomorrow.
Yeasayer's latest is an ambitious psychedelic quasi-concept record that is refreshingly (sometimes bizarrely) out-of-step with current trends, occasionally baffling, but mostly unsuccessful.
Yeasayer's latest is an ambitious psychedelic quasi-concept record that is refreshingly (sometimes bizarrely) out-of-step with current trends, occasionally baffling, but mostly unsuccessful.
There’s no denying the influence of chemical enhancement—or at least the hazy trappings of it—on Yeasayer’s music, but to dismiss or define what the Brooklyn band does as simply “druggy” misses so many other fitting descriptors. Its fourth album, Amen & Goodbye, is florid, psychedelic, poppy, complicated, aggressive,…
There’s no denying the influence of chemical enhancement—or at least the hazy trappings of it—on Yeasayer’s music, but to dismiss or define what the Brooklyn band does as simply “druggy” misses so many other fitting descriptors. Its fourth album, Amen & Goodbye, is florid, psychedelic, poppy, complicated, aggressive,…
Underpinned by a heady synthesis of the analogue and the digital, Amen & Goodbye is the Brooklyn three-piece's finest work to date.
Underpinned by a heady synthesis of the analogue and the digital, Amen & Goodbye is the Brooklyn three-piece's finest work to date.
If there’s a suspicion that Brooklyn’s Yeasayer try just a little too hard, it’s not a feeling that fourth LP Amen and Goodbye is going to disprove.
If there’s a suspicion that Brooklyn’s Yeasayer try just a little too hard, it’s not a feeling that fourth LP Amen and Goodbye is going to disprove.
Critics have always had an uneasy relationship with ambition. It's not that they don't want artists to push envelopes, just that there's an invisible fence within which they like to prescribe the act. Go too far and it's a sprawl, and for fuck's sake, don
Critics have always had an uneasy relationship with ambition. It's not that they don't want artists to push envelopes, just that there's an invisible fence within which they like to prescribe the act. Go too far and it's a sprawl, and for fuck's sake, don
Ever since their debut almost ten years ago, psych-pop experimentalists Yeasayer have never ceased to thrill. Fusing a vast array of musical styles
Ever since their debut almost ten years ago, psych-pop experimentalists Yeasayer have never ceased to thrill. Fusing a vast array of musical styles