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Since the release of their debut All Hour Cymbals back in 2007, Brooklyn experimento-popsters Yeasayer have been wowing audiences the world over with their expansive, genre-defying sound and drawing comparisons to MGMT and Animal Collective along the way. Now they have a second album under their belts in the form of Odd Blood. Stephen Bisset caught up with front man Chris Keating to chat about playing to no-one and album leaks.
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Hi Chris. What’s going on? Well, I’m in Baltimore right now where I grew up. I came down here to visit my folks for a few days and right before you called I was lying on a rug drinking tea.
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So how does it feel to finally have the difficult second album on the shelves? It’s always nice to get your baby out there, although I don’t know that the second album was all that difficult to make. I would say that it was more fun than difficult. The album leaked a couple of months early on the torrent sites. Does that tend to stick in your craw a little bit? It’s annoying I suppose, but you have to take solace in the fact that people are excited about it. Ultimately there’s nothing you can do about it and I somewhat embrace some parts of file sharing culture. I mean, it’s nice to share your music but I’m not sure about a whole album. But I mean what are you gonna do? There’s no point getting upset about it. How would you say Odd Blood differs from All Hour Cymbals? I would say that it’s kind of a logical progression. I mean, there were certain things that we did on the first record that we didn’t want to do again. So we basically filled in those negative spaces with new ideas. The new album is basically a realisation of stuff we’ve wanted to do for a while but haven’t been able to because we’ve been on the road for so long. How would you say the amount of touring you guys have done since All Hour Cymbals informed what ended up on Odd Blood. It probably informed it a lot. I mean you end up playing the same songs over and over every night, and honestly, we got tired of singing harmonies every night as it was getting really choral-sounding, so going in to the studio we knew we wanted the vocals to be more up-front. Do you see the album as a document as what you do on stage or do you prefer to see the live and studio stuff as separate entities? I see them as separate in many ways. In the studio we try to make weird sounds and do a lot of experimenting, y’know sometimes we have five rhythmic tracks going on at once and you can’t really pull that off live. And anyway, when
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I go see shows I don’t want to see a perfect recreation of an album, I want to feel that the artist is giving me something unique.
Well as they say, it’s the small shows that build character. Yeah I can’t imaging being some young band fresh out of high school that just gets thrust by some major label onto some big stage without having to work their way through the shit-hole clubs. Y’know when you’re playing to three people and two of them are psyched you’re doing pretty good. And you can actually get to know the crowd on a personal level. [Laughs] Yeah, you can even take requests from everybody. Odd Blood is out now through Spunk.
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Any plans to come to Australia anytime soon? Unfortunately not soon but I think we’re trying to get down there during our Fall [Autumn]. But if we can get there sooner we’ll definitely jump at the chance. We came down there last year and we all really enjoyed it.
It must’ve been good to see it grow like that? Totally. One of our very first shows outside of New York was in Cleveland and we played to like three people or something, and then we were really scared to go back there for like a year and a half and when we finally did we were playing to over 500, which was kinda nice.
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What was the first album you bought and what was the last one that got your attention? Well the first tape I bought was probably a Red Hot Chili Peppers one or REM, but the first CD I bought was the first Arrested Development album. The last record I bought that I really liked was a Major Lazer record. I really liked the whole idea behind it and there was some really cool stuff going on with it.
What’s next for Yeasayer? I imagine it will just be touring for the foreseeable future? Yeah we’re probably going to tour for the rest of this year, but we’re going to be a lot quicker in releasing the next record mostly because, not because we were lazy, but mostly because we were just touring endlessly. We started out there playing to like three people and ended up playing to a lot more by the end of it.
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