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The Album
Odd Blood, Yeasayer's sophomore release, is a diverse compilation of tracks featuring everything from 80's style alternative to psychedelic electronica with a touch of industrial grunge and some world music thrown in for good measure. The album cover is a reflective indication of what it holds inside, something unusual, psychedelic [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], futuristic and layered.
Getting through the ridiculously long two minute instrumental intro to Love Me Girl, the album's sixth track, leads to a decent sounding middle, but the reward for listening to it in it's entirety is the Depeche Mode-esque last minute of this song. The intro is just too long, it's as if they are emulating New Order, but lack the magic beat.
Just when Odd Blood is starting to plug itself into a genre, it switches gears and goes into a lot of 60's style oohing in it's third track Madder Red. This song adds a folk element to the album and is almost world music-like with some really cool guitar at the end. It's absolutely nothing like the first track or any of the other tracks for that matter.
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Odd Blood may be what it would sound like if Oingo Boingo, A Place to Bury Strangers, Depeche Mode and Rusted Root exploded and morphed into one band. By layering the best elements of these bands, along with a touch of some others on this album [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Yeasayer has somehow managed to create a modern alternative genre that has yet to be defined.
Strange & Experimental Songs
The 60's, The 80's & The Futuristic Influence
If there was ever an album that was trying to elude a classification of it's genre, Odd Blood would be it. Best described as alternative-psychedelic-80's-style rock, this album layers on the genres of music and keeps it's listeners guessing as to what comes next.
The seventh track, Rome, has a good Oingo Boingo-style beat with lots of unusual layering, while the eighth track, Strange Reunions, features psychedelic electro elements with excellent vocals and some clapping. The clapping continues in the last two tracks, Mondegreen and Grizelda, whose names sound like were taken from Cinderella's awful step sisters. Like those awful step sisters, Mondegreen and Grizelda are really not worth paying much attention to.
The fourth track, I Remember [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], is an intergalactic love song of sorts. It has lots of futuristic sounding elements which makes it the perfect song to play if you happen to be in a spaceship that's zooming around the earth. it's followed by the upbeat and energetic a song that's got a lot going on instrumentally. gets a bit monotonous at the end until it fades out in a classic 80's style fashion.
The first track on this album is no indication of what the rest of the album will sound like. The tracks are all so intensely diverse. Odd Blood starts out with The Children a track that's a bit on the industrial side, the lyrics are hard to understand due to the element of voice distortion, and the song in general is much darker than the majority of tracks on the rest of the album.
The second track, Ambling Alp, is the best song Odd Blood has to offer. The intro sounds like some type of liquid is bubbling and then it turns into what could best be described as a modern day song from the 80's. Lots of synths and horns mesh into all kinds of psychedelic and futuristic sounds which is very strange and yet familiar at the same time.
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