Brooklyn-based rock outfit Yeasayer, whose second album Odd Blood officially drops next Tuesday the 9th (it leaked in early December), will be in town to perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg the same night. After 2007’s All Hour Cymbals almost any follow up album would be a let down, but the band’s steep descent from their perch on a kind of hazy grungy gypsy pop into a throbby digital soundscape is sure to disappoint many of their adoring fans—the “sophomore slump” slander slingers will be out in force. Others however will dig the evolution of production on display throughout the brief, 40-minute album. While ‘80s-pop-reminiscent tracks, like “Ambling Alp” which seems ripped straight from an early John Cusak movie sountrack, give us a sense of the band’s backstory and an appealing—if a bit on the nose—snuggly radio single, the breadth of inspirations apparent and lofty ambition implicit in the range of tracks remind us why we fell so heavily for these guys in the first place.
Feb 9, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North 6th Street Brooklyn, NY t 718 486 5400
