They released their latest EP last month, and we have been on a Suckers-love streak since our interview with them a few weeks ago, so we figured, why not stream their latest video for their new single “Easy Chair” for you?
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While Yeasayer is working hard on their new album, the band’s guitarist Anand Wilder is testing out his chops as a musical-maker. Yes, you read that correctly. The Brooklyn-based musician who is known for creating experimental sounds and psychedelic visuals with his fellow members of Yeasayer, is in the process of writing a musical, which is planned to be released as both a stage show and an album.
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Preparing for the release of her alter-ego opus Two Suns this coming April, Natasha Khan, aka Bat for Lashes, might be taking things a bit too Beyonce / Sasha Fierce. Good thing she has some other voices to lend besides her own and her other one.
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As we get closer to the top of many our lists, we’ve found that the results start to skew a bit on the hippie side. With many a beard and worldly instruments, it’s a place where high-brow, lo-fi animation videos reign supreme. And the first of the crop to show up on our best of 2008 is Yeasayer’s video for the single edit of “Wait for the Summer”.
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