Posted 4/30/2010 by cal
Are we getting to a point in popular music where maintaining a definable identity is equivalent to stagnation? Constant reinvention seems to be the order of the day in indie rock, but the type of transformation between Yeasayer’s 2007 debut All Hour Cymbals and this year’s Odd Blood is on the caterpillar/butterfly order. That’s not to say the new Yeasayer is a more beautiful creature, just virtually unrecognizable. But thinking back, the metamorphosis should’ve been evident to me from the 2008 fall tour; Yeasayer had already progressed beyond its freak-folk phase. Still, it was far from synth-pop…
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