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They Who Say Yea

This week's song (O.N.E.) and artist (Yeasayer) are equally hard to categorize; like The National last week, they are Brooklyn-based, but there the resemblance ends.. Sometimes a quartet or a quintet, Yeasayer's sound is a caleidoscope of genres and elements they once described as 'mid-eastern psychedelic snap gospel. I'm not so sure; but today's song shows the group seamlessly blending rock and eletronica, shifting tempos and textures. The vocal recalls is halfway between Erasure's Andy Bell and the vocalist Bell was intended to replace, Yaz's Alison Moyet; that is, plaintive and emotional; vocalist Chris Keating said he aims to be 'experimental but clubby and as catchy as Rihanna..'

Yeasayer's acclaimed debut album, 'Tightrope,' was recorded in a tiny studio up in Woodstock, NY, and was inspired by their trip to New Zealand.

I don't often comment on album art, but maybe I should start to. At left: the cover of 'Tightrope' is a bust by artist Benjamin Phelan - a 'future of distorted biology' sculpted from 'virtual clay.''