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Yeasayer - '2080 / Sunrise'

Yeasayer - '2080 / Sunrise'

September 03, 2007 by Janne Oinonen
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Imagine the grooviest highlife combo Lagos has to offer skating on the shiny surfaces of a smooth early 80's soul-pop gem, pausing only to construct a soaring chorus so thoroughly steeped in vintage MOR milestones Midlake fans are guaranteed to be bowled over by it, and you'll have an inkling of '2080's excellence.  The first single from the hotly tipped Yeasayer is reminiscent of fellow Brooklynites Animal Collective and Akron/Family, if only for the abundance of ideas (all of them good) and the shared gusto with which the outfits burn the indie rock rulebook and hop over genre barriers like overcharged Duracell bunnies. The fractured dream-funk of chant-fuelled flipside 'Sunrise' is even better, the four-piece by now dropping so many captivating details to the euphoric mix you'd suspect they were trying to obscure severe shortcomings in the songcraft department, were the whole hook-loaded bonanza not more difficult to shake off than chewing gum stuck at the sole of your shoe. On this showing, saying yeah is just about to become a whole lot more popular.

Released 03/09/07 on We Are Free


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