Listen to the New Yeasayer Single


As previously reported, Brooklyn head-wreckers Yeasayer have a new album called Odd Blood coming February 19. In North America, it'll be on Secretly Canadian, and Mute will carry it everywhere else. Below, you can hear "Ambling Alp", the first single.
On November 3, Secretly Canadian will release "Ambling Alp" digitally and on limited edition 12" vinyl. The vinyl version will come in a colored metallic sleeve, and it'll feature remixes from chillwave recluse Memory Tapes and academic beat scientist DJ /rupture.
Musically, "Ambling Alp" is several worlds away from the heavy psych crunch of All Hour Cymbals, the band's great 2007 debut. The song starts out with whirring homespun IDM before lurching into something approximating cruise-ship reggae, and then back into the IDM again. Halfway through, the track mutates completely, when a swarm of utterly funky horn stabs come in. The one constant: The band's skyward harmonies.
Click below to stream it, or head over to Yeasayer's site to download.
It could sound even crazier tonight, when Yeasayer play at New York City's Guggenheim Museum, with a special light show. Halloween eve at the Guggenheim with Yeasayer and a light show? Yes please.