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February 1, 2010

Track of the Day: Yeasayer – “O.N.E.”

“O.N.E.” is the second single from Yeasayer’s new album Odd Blood, which is an early (but serious) contender for one of 2010’s albums of the year. The Brooklyn band had blogs atwitter with their 2007 debut album All Hour Cymbals and its experimental yet beguiling mash of chanting psychedelia and ethno-tribal urban indie grooves. Odd Blood expands on that paradigm with a synthetic populist twist: on this album—and “O.N.E.”—they’ve embraced their inner electro-pop aesthete. While that’s not exactly news these days—Owl City, anyone?—that Yeasayer combine seriously catchy synths and ‘80s style vocal hooks with their genunine innate strangeness makes it not just palatable, but wonderfully strange and accessible at the same time. Yesasayer have a kind of MGMT meets TV On The Radio relentlessness to find new sounds and weld them to something that sounds amazing blasting out of MacBook speakers, and “O.N.E.” is the apotheosis of that.  Its vocal refrain of “you don’t move me anymore” will lodge itself in your brain after one listen as you puzzle apart its various textures and post-modern feints at nostalgia. Regardless of the sonic gambits, “O.N.E.” just works; that it sounds like a great lost A-Ha single is actually a plus, not a hindrance…

Written by Matt Diehl

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