All Hour Cymbals

rippy psychedelic indie with electronica influences and a cool highly manipulated vocal delivering chanty verses over with the dancey beats and kaleidoscopic eclectic arrangements sourced from the world music aisle.

Yeasayer freaking ruled. I do prefer their later more electronic-influenced material but this album is still stellar. The more folky vibes are super interesting and work well for them.

Fine? It was fine.

Experimental rock mixed with indie. Some middle eastern soundscapes mixed in. The exotic sounds helps with the indie, but it is still indie. It just ends up being a lot of moaning. 2080 is a certified banger though.

Favourite songs: 2080, Germs, Red Cave

Least favourite songs: "Ah, Weir", Forgiveness (all I hear when this plays is the background noise that take place on Squid Games every time the masked dicks arrive), Wait for the Wintertime, Worms, Waves

2/5

Raw fun and musicallity

I submitted this one. A pick inspired by Django Django on the main list, of all things. You guys remember "Django Django" by Django Django? It was one of those entries where they were flailing for something from the 2010s and went with a random British indie group. And honestly it was pretty fine! I gave it a 4/5, but nothing from it made the cut for my highlights playlist, you know the type.

The reason "Django Django" reminded me of Yeasayer, though, is that listening to it finally resolved a long-standing cliffhanger in my life. Back in 2012, I was visiting Portland, Oregon with classmates, and became obsessed with the idea of going into a music store and buying some indie music, like I'd heard about "the hipsters" doing. I picked up Yeasayer's "Fragrant World," and the clerk suggested I should check out Django Django. I then proceeded to not listen to Django Django for over 10 years, until they showed up on the albums list. And once I'd listened to it, I came away thinking "that was pretty good, and I get why that guy thought to recommend them to me, but also any of Yeasayer's first three albums could have pretty easily gone into Django Django's spot on the list."

All of which to say, that was my favorite type of experience I got from the main project, and I felt like submitting Yeasayer's most consistent album to the user list was a good way to pay that forward. Breaking from the audience consensus here, I think this one opens *and* closes extremely strong, but meanders a lot in the middle. It's also interesting the number of reviews contextualizing them as part of a larger Brooklyn Indie scene—I'd just stumbled across these guys by accident, without knowing anything about that, and just kind of latched on.

Kind of weird in an enjoyable way.

Really enjoyed this, never heard of them
Before, but great example of modern experimental rock that is also easy listening, added to my rotation.