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Yeasayer - Odd Blood
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Odd Blood
Album Rating: 68

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Released: February 9, 2010
Label: Secretly Canadian

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musicOMH:80
Spin:80
NME:80
All Music:80
Tiny Mix Tapes:70
PopMatters:70
Drowned in Sound:70
Pitchfork:61
No Ripcord:60

End of the Year Lists
Amazon (Mid Year): # 29
NPR Listeners (Mid Year): # 12

Track List

  1. The Children 
  2. Ambling Alp 
  3. Madder Red 
  4. I Remember 
  5. ONE 
  6. Love Me Girl 
  7. Rome 
  8. Strange Reunions 
  9. Mondegreen

Reviews

musicOMH

Mischievous from the word go, Yeasayer's second album Odd Blood opens with a musical red herring. With its clunky electronics, cow bells and slo-mo vocals, The Children sounds like a nasty 1970s Peter Gabriel single played at 33rpm. It's best taken as a palate cleanser, providing a clear break between the stately mystique of their debut All Hour Cymbals and the unashamedly crowd-pleasing yet deceptively complex remainder of the new album.

Pitchfork

When Yeasayer debuted in 2007 with All Hour Cymbals, they were a Brooklyn art-pop group intriguingly out of step with their peers. They carried an air of mystery and surprise, and at their best ("2080", "Sunrise") managed to make offbeat mysticism and off-kilter pop music seem attractive and exciting. They were basically a rootsy, classic rock-ish version of MGMT then. Their fate seemed doubly sealed by "Tightrope", their laser-focused and damn near best-in-show con tribution to the all-star charity compilation Dark Was the Night.


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