Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp” (Memory Tapes Remix) MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
Master of the mid-song breakdown, Memory Tapes lends his melancholy touch to Yeasayer’s already optimistic/bittersweet new single “Ambling Alp,” gives it a little more heft and makes it seem like he’s composing this remix live in his kitchen while his friends hang out and fiddle with radio dials. Good vibes still abound though.
Download: Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp” (Memory Tapes Remix) (via GvsB)
Stream: Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp” (DJ/Rupture Remix)
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Guy Martin (F49)
Last week Yeasayer officially released sophomore album single “Ambling Alp,” and today DJ/Rupture’s version popped up on the internet in what feels like record turnaround time. The remix makes sense too: live, Yeasayer have always approached a more intense club thump, and Rupture furthers that idea, pushing “Ambling Alp” from spacey inspiration into deep bass tones and manipulated vocals. Both versions are great, it just depends if you want to feel happy about the world or like you’ve been swimming in thick mud for a couple hours. Stream it over at Stereogum.
Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp” MP3
- story Peter Macia
A live revelation of recent Yeasayer shows, “Ambling Alp” indicates a definitive move away from All Hour Cymbals‘ mystic journeys toward an ecstatic and thick pop (layered sax!) that the band first really revealed on the absurdly good “Tightrope” from the Dark Was The Night compilation. The song, which is the first single from 2010’s Odd Blood LP, will be released as a single with remixes by Memory Tapes and DJ/Rupture on November 3rd, but in the meantime, feel free to make it your go-to jam for ceremonial dances invoking better times ahead.
Download: Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp” (requires email registration)
Video: Yeasayer Singing In Public On The Takeaway Show
- story THE FADER
Yeasayer are clearly not afraid to do stuff acapella. Like, it’s pretty scary to sing without music backing you, but they do it anyway and it is inspiring enough that suddenly we are watching these videos and joining an after work All Akon glee club. Thanks Yeasayer! Anyway, here’s a couple videos of them singing in various outside places and occasionally laughing while singing. Check out one video up top and the other one—involving the band performing at some dude’s house—after the jump.
Video: Tripping with Yeasayer and MGMT
- story THE FADER
Buddies and tourmates, MGMT and Yeasayer both recently commissioned videos for “singles” from their excellent albums. Yeasayer’s brand new one is a Dali-esque cosmic journey that goes all snowy when they hit that “oohwee-oohwee-ooh” part of the song, and MGMT’s just looks like acid is making a big comeback in parts of Brooklyn.
Video: Yeasayer, “2080″ (Live at Echoplex, Los Angeles)
- story THE FADER
Notice to all burgeoning videographers: if you go see a show as good as the one we sponsored last weekend at the Echoplex in LA, with Yeasayer and MGMT, please send us videos as awesome as this one and these ones to info@thefader.com.
Notice to everyone else: Yeasayer and MGMT are crazily awesome and are touring like nuts, so go see them.
LA: Yeasayer and White Williams At The Echoplex
- story THE FADER
A couple FADER favorites are jamming LA’s Echoplex this weekend, but we aren’t going to tell you who they are. They are Brooklyn’s Yeasayer, who we’ve expressed near inappropriate volumes of love for recently (in person), and White Williams, whose low-key lazerfunk got our brains pregnant last fall (twice!) at CMJ and the FADER 50 party. Yeasayer is Saturday and is joined by also excellent MGMT, while WW covers Sunday evening. If you’re crafty enough you could probably stake out a spot under the bridge near the entrance on Saturday night, get Sunday brunch at Masa and not even bother going home between shows.
FADER TV: Yeasayer @ FADER CMJ Sideshow
- story THE FADER
Video by Joe Angerone
Friday and Saturday at the FADER CMJ Sideshow (delivered by at&t) were packed with good times and major jams— which we’ll be posting words and images from later—but we wanted to start out with this video of Brooklyn via Baltimore’s Yeasayer, who took over our radio show on Friday, who have an incredible album out tomorrow, and who absolutely destroyed on Saturday night, including this snappy rendition of non-album track “Final Path.” Also, wild focused windbreakers and headwear. Check back later today and throughout the week for the rest of our Sideshow videos as we try to figure out why there is no Bud Select or SoCo punch everpresent in our office.
