Yeasayer 's -sophomore release, Odd Blood, is a spirit-aural journey. If there is a soundtrack to finding Nirvana (as in bliss, not Grunge), there is no doubt several Yeasayer tracks from both their 2007 mind-blowing debut, All Hour Cymbals , and their soon-be-to-released Odd Blood (2010), make the playlist.
In several interviews they mention that the sort-of "spiritual" essence of their music is just an unintentional by-product of trying to make good, catchy, pop songs, a kind of forthright honesty and down-to-earthness that is apparent in their interviews . If you're like me, you want to believe this album was written specifically to guide you on a pilgrimage to enlightenment, but no, just a coincidence. But then again, that is in the ear of the beholder.
However they arrive at such eerily, enthralling music, they are doing it exactly right. Odd Blood is this years' Merriweather Post Pavilion , an early masterpiece, having unending replay value, and the potential to be a chart topper to propel them into limelight, a place where they certainly deserve to be.
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