Odd Blood
仕様 | 価格 | 新品 | 中古品 |
CD, CD, インポート, 2010/4/17
"もう一度試してください。" | CD, インポート |
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| ¥500 | ¥75 |
CD, インポート, 2011/1/28
"もう一度試してください。" | インポート |
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| ¥4,170 | ¥1,500 |
曲目リスト
1 | The Children |
2 | Ambling Alp |
3 | Madder Red |
4 | I Remember |
5 | O.N.E |
6 | Love Me Girl |
7 | Rome |
8 | Strange Reunions |
9 | Mondegreen |
10 | Grizelda |
商品の説明
2010 sophomore album from the Brooklyn-based Indie Rockers. Yeasayer released their first album in 2007 and toured with sold out shows around the world. Now, Odd Blood is shaping up to be a highly successful record for the three piece. The album spans the musical spectrum, blending the twisted, ambient rhythms and global sound of their debut release with forceful ambitious electronics and hook-laden playful Pop.
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- 製品サイズ : 13.89 x 12.8 x 0.79 cm; 68.04 g
- メーカー : Secretly Canadian
- EAN : 0656605021027
- レーベル : Secretly Canadian
- ASIN : B0030E5NKU
- ディスク枚数 : 1
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Set
5つ星のうち5.0
Capolavoro
2019年1月13日にイタリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Solitamente non recensisco dischi, film, libri in quanto il giudizio su di un'opera risulta essere ovviamente influenzato dai propri gusti. Ma in questo caso mi sembra oggettivamente appropriato definire questo disco uno dei migliori dell'ultimo decennio. Se solo l'avesse pubblicato qualche band più blasonata sarebbe già nella storia del Pop...
Mark Eremite
5つ星のうち5.0
Two Cheers (and One Thumbs-Up) For Yeasayer
2012年8月27日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
A recent analysis in Scientific Reports revealed that -- it's true -- all popular music these days sounds the same. You can look it up yourself; it was done by computers and scientists and everything. Lucky us, we live in the days of mass communication and internet technology, and although people who DON'T sound like everyone else aren't usually in the mainstream, they aren't that hard to find for those who know how to look. Hence, Yeasayer.
When I first discovered Yeasayer, I wasn't sure what I was listening to. It sounded like the soundtrack to a water park that runs on fever dreams and which caters to old souls inside young, sun-baked bodies. That's no good, though. It's poetic and all, but who really knows what I'm talking about? The point, really, is that they're good, unusual, and you should check them out.
ALL HOUR CYMBALS -- 5 stars
More raw instrumentation than you find in most bands, their first album has the coarse-granola-sensibility of a Rusted Root with the chaotic storytelling of an Animal Collective . Every song sounds like it was inspired by a bonfire, rocket launch, or church revival. There's an earthen, unwashed humanity to each tune, like the sound of a nerve being jangled and soothed at the same time. Standouts: "2080" (a bittersweet anthem with a bridge than never fails to give me goosebumps), "No Need To Worry" (another slow burning tune with an operatic and uplifting chord progression), and "Red Cave" (my favorite song of theirs so far; an incrementally aggressive mountain climber of a song that hits a dense joyful core at the end).
ODD BLOOD - 5 stars
The first song leads listeners to expect something darker and uglier than their debut record. "The Children" sounds like it was recorded in a flooded factory and then slowed down to give the vocals a mock-Waits-ish sound. I didn't care for it when I first heard it, and still don't. However, it was immediately followed by seven absolutely stellar tunes, starting with the playful, skip-to-my-loo beats of "Ambling Alp" and moving through to the retro-echoes of "Love Me Girl" and then on to my favorite of the album, the weird and slinky "Strange Reunions." Their sound is pulled closer to the chest in this album, and their vast collection of instruments is pared down in favor of more digitization, but the end result is no less uplifting or driven.
FRAGRANT WORLD - 4 stars
The electronic contraction that began in ODD BLOOD is fully realized here, and the end result is unfortunately a less approachable set of songs. It's almost as if they were attempting to parody some They All Sound The Same pop songs by skewering them with their trademark inventiveness, the end result being a lot of songs that sound like they could be great if only they'd settle down and figure out where they were headed. The backgrounds, vocals, instrumentation, and digitization is at a full frenzy, with none of it really cohering into something you can really sink your teeth into. I like grim-pop-propulsion of "Reagan's Skeleton," and "Folk Hero Shtick" is my favorite song off the album, with its bizarre braiding of a horror movie's mentality with a kid's show's pep tuned to an off key. There are only two songs I don't like ("No Bones" sounds like its insulting itself and "Glass of the Microscope" sounds like they slapped together remnants that they'd cut from four different songs), but the rest don't reach the same, grand heights as the group achieved in their previous two records. Still good, but no longer great. (Also, a head's up: I had serious downloading issues with this website's digital purchase for this album and had to get it via other means.)
When I first discovered Yeasayer, I wasn't sure what I was listening to. It sounded like the soundtrack to a water park that runs on fever dreams and which caters to old souls inside young, sun-baked bodies. That's no good, though. It's poetic and all, but who really knows what I'm talking about? The point, really, is that they're good, unusual, and you should check them out.
ALL HOUR CYMBALS -- 5 stars
More raw instrumentation than you find in most bands, their first album has the coarse-granola-sensibility of a Rusted Root with the chaotic storytelling of an Animal Collective . Every song sounds like it was inspired by a bonfire, rocket launch, or church revival. There's an earthen, unwashed humanity to each tune, like the sound of a nerve being jangled and soothed at the same time. Standouts: "2080" (a bittersweet anthem with a bridge than never fails to give me goosebumps), "No Need To Worry" (another slow burning tune with an operatic and uplifting chord progression), and "Red Cave" (my favorite song of theirs so far; an incrementally aggressive mountain climber of a song that hits a dense joyful core at the end).
ODD BLOOD - 5 stars
The first song leads listeners to expect something darker and uglier than their debut record. "The Children" sounds like it was recorded in a flooded factory and then slowed down to give the vocals a mock-Waits-ish sound. I didn't care for it when I first heard it, and still don't. However, it was immediately followed by seven absolutely stellar tunes, starting with the playful, skip-to-my-loo beats of "Ambling Alp" and moving through to the retro-echoes of "Love Me Girl" and then on to my favorite of the album, the weird and slinky "Strange Reunions." Their sound is pulled closer to the chest in this album, and their vast collection of instruments is pared down in favor of more digitization, but the end result is no less uplifting or driven.
FRAGRANT WORLD - 4 stars
The electronic contraction that began in ODD BLOOD is fully realized here, and the end result is unfortunately a less approachable set of songs. It's almost as if they were attempting to parody some They All Sound The Same pop songs by skewering them with their trademark inventiveness, the end result being a lot of songs that sound like they could be great if only they'd settle down and figure out where they were headed. The backgrounds, vocals, instrumentation, and digitization is at a full frenzy, with none of it really cohering into something you can really sink your teeth into. I like grim-pop-propulsion of "Reagan's Skeleton," and "Folk Hero Shtick" is my favorite song off the album, with its bizarre braiding of a horror movie's mentality with a kid's show's pep tuned to an off key. There are only two songs I don't like ("No Bones" sounds like its insulting itself and "Glass of the Microscope" sounds like they slapped together remnants that they'd cut from four different songs), but the rest don't reach the same, grand heights as the group achieved in their previous two records. Still good, but no longer great. (Also, a head's up: I had serious downloading issues with this website's digital purchase for this album and had to get it via other means.)
NIMROD
5つ星のうち5.0
Yeasayer, I say yea!
2012年8月5日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
When I first went nuts over Simian Mobile Disco's Audacity Of Huge (featuring Yeasayer's Chris Keating on vocals), I had never heard Yeasayer. Needless to say, I went similarly nuts over Yeasayer's sophomore oeuvre, Odd Blood, once I discovered it. And I must say, it has since then etched itself onto my personal list of favourite records.
Yeasayer perfectly achieves that which I admire most about the music industry, namely skirting that fine line between obscurely and independently alternative and charmingly accessible mainstream, for lack of a better word. Yes, Yeasayer is at times a bit on the weird side, and their eclectic style may not appeal to everyone, but Keating's vocals in particular and the songwriting behind it reveal an otherwise pure pop nature at the same level as any other uber-popular hit artist, and I suspect that combination has helped generate much of the attraction surrounding the band.
Speaking of weird, take the opening track 'The Children,' with its decrepit robot singing and bubbly, sleepy beat. I guess Yeasayer is an indie band, to return to boring definitions - maybe synthpop. But it's their affinity for experimentation that makes them stand out in a world full of radio pumping homogeneous hits. 'Ampling Alp' is one such stand-out track, a hit that sports a background story, making the fine lyrics very interesting. 'Madder Red' is dream pop, or rather what dream pop should sound like, because dream pop is boring in comparison. It's groovy electropop with an epic refrain! 'I Remember' sounds like something Colplay could turn out if they eschewed their own hype and started thinking so far outside the box that the distance would make them dizzy; a sentimental ballad with wispy synthesizers and Keating's voice at its finest. 'Love Me Girl' and 'Rome' keep up the groovy pace with slightly less memorable yet equally cool tunes. 'Strange Reunions' is Beatles and Primal Scream, and 'Mondegreen' is Moroderesque with a sidetrack of pulsating saxophones. After the concluding 'Grizelda', forty minutes feels awfully short, and I realize I have been smiling constantly.
But it's the mock-calypsofunk 'O.N.E.' that burns me up every time I hear it, with its catchy refrain and cozy '80's sound. Nicely snuggled in the middle of the album, it sits there as the absolute peak of Odd Blood's forty minutes, the tracks leading up to it acting as exciting build-ups, and the tracks leading down from it presenting a perfect teetering off this modern retro-music mountain ride. The album is self-produced, and it shows in
the quality and variety of the songs and the production. Check out the cover, it's psychedelic. Listen to the music, it's psychedelic. Now tell me, is psychedelica great or not?
Yeasayer perfectly achieves that which I admire most about the music industry, namely skirting that fine line between obscurely and independently alternative and charmingly accessible mainstream, for lack of a better word. Yes, Yeasayer is at times a bit on the weird side, and their eclectic style may not appeal to everyone, but Keating's vocals in particular and the songwriting behind it reveal an otherwise pure pop nature at the same level as any other uber-popular hit artist, and I suspect that combination has helped generate much of the attraction surrounding the band.
Speaking of weird, take the opening track 'The Children,' with its decrepit robot singing and bubbly, sleepy beat. I guess Yeasayer is an indie band, to return to boring definitions - maybe synthpop. But it's their affinity for experimentation that makes them stand out in a world full of radio pumping homogeneous hits. 'Ampling Alp' is one such stand-out track, a hit that sports a background story, making the fine lyrics very interesting. 'Madder Red' is dream pop, or rather what dream pop should sound like, because dream pop is boring in comparison. It's groovy electropop with an epic refrain! 'I Remember' sounds like something Colplay could turn out if they eschewed their own hype and started thinking so far outside the box that the distance would make them dizzy; a sentimental ballad with wispy synthesizers and Keating's voice at its finest. 'Love Me Girl' and 'Rome' keep up the groovy pace with slightly less memorable yet equally cool tunes. 'Strange Reunions' is Beatles and Primal Scream, and 'Mondegreen' is Moroderesque with a sidetrack of pulsating saxophones. After the concluding 'Grizelda', forty minutes feels awfully short, and I realize I have been smiling constantly.
But it's the mock-calypsofunk 'O.N.E.' that burns me up every time I hear it, with its catchy refrain and cozy '80's sound. Nicely snuggled in the middle of the album, it sits there as the absolute peak of Odd Blood's forty minutes, the tracks leading up to it acting as exciting build-ups, and the tracks leading down from it presenting a perfect teetering off this modern retro-music mountain ride. The album is self-produced, and it shows in
the quality and variety of the songs and the production. Check out the cover, it's psychedelic. Listen to the music, it's psychedelic. Now tell me, is psychedelica great or not?
Pokespagne
5つ星のうち4.0
Presque un pur chef d'oeuvre pop du XXIe siècle
2010年5月11日にフランスでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Un album peut-il commencer de pire manière que ce "Odd Blood" ? Il n'est pas certain que quiconque ait envie de continuer l'écoute de ce disque, au final l'un des tous meilleurs de 2010 pour le moment, après avoir subi "The Children" ! Ce serait pourtant dommage de se priver de la suite, et sa rangée de pop songs à la fois complexes (de la musique expérimentale en provenance de Brooklyn, encore une fois ? Oui !) et furieusement commerciales : Pet Shop Boys, Heaven 17, Prince, Bowie, Talking Heads, Scissor Sisters, toutes les références de la musique - intelligente - de dance floor sont convoquées et joyeusement revues dans un tourbillon psychédélique. Au final, et même si un certain nombre d'écoutes seront nécessaires pour pénétrer tous les secrets de ce disque aussi chatoyant et gai que mystérieux et un rien oppressant, on aura compris que "Odd Blood" s'approche du pur chef d'oeuvre pop du XXIè siècle. Si ce n'était cette terrible intro !
LA
5つ星のうち4.0
Yeasayer breaks into the 'mainstream' with their 2010 release, "Odd Blood"
2010年3月7日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I want to start of by saying that if this review was based on the two singles from Odd Blood, Ambling Alp and O.N.E. it would be a 5 star + review. The first time I heard Ambling Alp (think it was on WOXY) a smile formed on my face and I went on a mission to find that Mp3. I then heard their next single, entitled O.N.E. - another funky track that is sure to elicit a smile. The thought and detail that went into producing these songs is most definitely apparent when you throw on a pair of good headphones and just sit in a quiet room and listen. Slight nuances that are not normally heard when blasting down the highway come out and really show what Yeasayer is all about.
So now that I've rambled on about why I think the two singles are so great, let's get into the rest of the album.
When I first popped the disc into my CD player I was instantly let down. Yes, "Children" could be considered a relatively effective intro track with its slowed down tempo and notions of "building up" for what is to come, but overall I wasn't really impressed. The beat and looped piano worked well, but it could have done without the distorted audio. "The Children" leads into "Ambling Alp", one of the catchiest songs of 2010 as of this writing. If by the end of this track you do not have the lyric "Stick up for yourself son" repeating in your head, this album is probably not for you. "Madder Red" is an epic sounding "indie rock ballad" with a solid hook and great vocals. It reminds me of their first album, All Hour Cymbals. "I Remember", and "O.N.E." are two more that are worth talking about.
The rest of the album is good, but nothing stands out in my mind as being something I want to hear repeatedly. Highlight tracks on the album include:
Ambling Alp
Madder Red
I Remember
O.N.E.
Rome
Odd Blood is the album that will help project Yeasayer more into the mainstream. While this album may be just a hair shy of commercial radio play, this is no indicator of success (by any means!). For those who have not heard their first album, it is definitely worth a listen - at a minimum, listen to the single "Sunrise."
As a side note, there is a "making of" studio tour video posted at Pitchfork, and if you are into the band go watch it, very cool.
So now that I've rambled on about why I think the two singles are so great, let's get into the rest of the album.
When I first popped the disc into my CD player I was instantly let down. Yes, "Children" could be considered a relatively effective intro track with its slowed down tempo and notions of "building up" for what is to come, but overall I wasn't really impressed. The beat and looped piano worked well, but it could have done without the distorted audio. "The Children" leads into "Ambling Alp", one of the catchiest songs of 2010 as of this writing. If by the end of this track you do not have the lyric "Stick up for yourself son" repeating in your head, this album is probably not for you. "Madder Red" is an epic sounding "indie rock ballad" with a solid hook and great vocals. It reminds me of their first album, All Hour Cymbals. "I Remember", and "O.N.E." are two more that are worth talking about.
The rest of the album is good, but nothing stands out in my mind as being something I want to hear repeatedly. Highlight tracks on the album include:
Ambling Alp
Madder Red
I Remember
O.N.E.
Rome
Odd Blood is the album that will help project Yeasayer more into the mainstream. While this album may be just a hair shy of commercial radio play, this is no indicator of success (by any means!). For those who have not heard their first album, it is definitely worth a listen - at a minimum, listen to the single "Sunrise."
As a side note, there is a "making of" studio tour video posted at Pitchfork, and if you are into the band go watch it, very cool.