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Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals / Odd

group difficult to classify risky without the use of expressions as obscure interminable including my favorite, New Eastern-psych-snap-rock-folk-gospel (???), understand experimental folk-rock to make simple (but still somewhat suggestive), this training is a native of Brooklyn since 2007 his little way, appearing on the net
through videos "Take Away Show" and festivals in addition to Atlantic and MGMT alongside England in particular. The story is not without relevance here, since the musical journey of Yeasayer through his two albums (the same number as MGMT) seems diametrically opposed to that of New York duo. Indeed, after the worldwide success of the very pop Oracular Spectacular (which deserves, I think, to be heard a little further than the overused and now sadly commonplace Kids and Time to Pretend , including with Weekend Wars and The Youth ), MGMT delivered a second album (Congratulations) much more experimental, more interesting I found elsewhere (listen Flash Delirium , It's Working , I Found A Whistle ) and therefore necessarily having less success with the plebeian base. At the same time, Yeasayer spent their first album ( All Hour Cymbals ) released in 2007 and j'affublerais, in addition to several nicknames mentioned above, the adjective awesome, fundamentally new, sometimes surprising, at one second (Old Blood, 2010) sounding more electropop making use recurring sound effect betraying the influence of the duo's success on New Yorkers' small Yeasayer. How to interpret this strange change of direction? Awareness of a talent and desire to make themselves known to as many people with an album more accessible? Opportunism caused by the current wave Eletro-rock?

us is reassuring, however, it does not pass from masterpiece to the turd. Indeed, if the melodies are more pop, instrumental accompaniment more electronic and less refined effects, we recover the leg and the strong personality of the group sound on each piece of Old Blood . You always have the right to a confusing pop, baroque rococo without (border of kitsch, but the right side), even stratospheric air, including ONE , another group's success in Album . Wallop Heart also for songs Madder red for its haunting vocalizations and its ambience (at least I felt) "apache dance around the fire" , and Ambling Alp for his boundless energy. Admittedly, it's very pop, sometimes with sounds, liquid sound of bubbles bursting, especially Ambling Alp (they had to listen Time to Pretend and especially its intro a few times) but nothing to say over there, it's still fresh, new, rich, it feels good and it does not look like the album flared in one week, one who listens distractedly on a computer for the dishes to pass the time. We feel a real research behind, and everything remains consistent and very enjoyable listening.

Ultimately, although at first necessarily surprised by the transition and not clear the turn at right angles made between the two albums, we finally find the complementary from a group that does not seem locked into a style but explore, seek novelty, progress (the future will tell) throughout its journey. It is a bit forced prefer All Hour Cymbals , simpler, more streamlined, less electronics, and especially the brand personality of Yeasayer with more force, which drowns least in electronic effects, but not to throw in Old Blood, quite the contrary. To understand this change of music, including the very air stream 2080 , their best song in my opinion: arpeggio guitar, backing vocals, the bass, drums, everything seems to fly in all directions lavishly when the chorus begins, after a first verse and beating retaining more energy. I take this opportunity to discuss a piece of their debut which is not on any of their albums but that is also worth visiting, Tightrope , with a very tribal drum beat (n ' see none of the connotations of the word bad taste today clothed in the collective imagination, we could use the word shaman, can be a bit much for the occasion ...), harmonies and double voice very neat.

It is all finished so that the end of this article was more to discover in this group resolutely unpronounceable name to comment on the latest album by Yeasayer, I therefore recommend strongly and contained all the same in 15th place in the ranking of the best NME albums of the year and the 22nd-highest ranking Inrockuptibles, which offers an early guarantee of its quality and that of its composers.

Mr. Lucas

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Welcome to Blood Gun Club

In an article in 1982, Lester Bangs lapidary crucified the Gun Club: "A dull Attempt to punk robert johnson blues. Ben there, once will not hurt, it was all wrong. Because if there was a little bit of logic, the Gun Club would also be recognized that, at random, the Stooges and the Clash.

There have always been renovators blues: everything has been called the British blues boom from 63, Captain Beefheart, Canned Heat, Allman Brothers, then in the 80's Gun Club, Stevie Ray Vaughan Nick Cave, Spencer Blues later, and finally the White Stripes. But there are different ways of conceiving, music suggestive at first, Spartan, any tension, the blues came through Clapton, Allman Brothers and others to a mere excuse for demonstrations of bravery guitar; Cream, for example, great band when he walked away from it ("White Room ", " Tales of Brave Ulysses ") was the most calamitous when he gave the Blues "authentic" (and this version of castrated " Spoonful "the great Howlin Wolf in" Fresh Cream "). Nothing like that at the Gun Club.

When released in 1981, "Fire of Love" had to happen like a miracle. Because at the time, it's really not joy; Dylan made his Christian rock, Neil Young made techno (...), black music is almost dead (with the notable exception of Prince and Chic) and we see this happen drum sounds bloated (battery is actually saying a lot since we only hear the snare drum), these stupid low and disgusting these keyboards everywhere. Oh, and sax solos that make you laugh today. All these icons of previous years, there's little that good Bruce and Tom Waits who did not appear next to their pumps. One can imagine the relief felt by everyone that arrives when the stampede General Gun Club, all things considered, is the major group of the day (Who else?).

When the Cramps, who dedicate Jeffrey Lee Pierce " For the love of ivy ", then draw a degenerate version of rockabilly (although I always found the Cramps at best and it's fun stopped there), returned to the Gun Club ancestral blues, it mixes with the violent urgency of punk, inventing something totally new.

The first two albums ("Fire of Love" and "Miami"), are really hell, full of off-center blues, sexy, angry, too, all dominated by the voices of Pierce, incredible, not nice for a cent , screaming, blame, great. Looks like a bad Tom Verlaine. Even the covers are legendary. The production, which ruined the three-quarters of the album at the time, here is impeccable. The sound is playful, the super chick guitar slides, the rhythm section, straight and tight. And anthology titles enchainent to each other, whether pickup sound of Tommy Johnson, Leadbelly ("John Hardy "), Robert Johnson ("Preachin the Blues"), Creedence including rock swampy clearly traumatized Pierce or the latter's own compositions, navigating between obscenity delighted " Jack on Fire" and incantations of envapées " She's like heroin to me " or "Watermelon Man," forgetting not the passage of scouring mythology blues ("Ghost on the highway," "Devil in the Woods").

And when engaged in some morrisonneries (that's me. It's bad but that's me) is great ("Fire of Love", the gigantic "Mother of earth "and the hoots of slide guitar," Brother and sister "). Moreover Jeffrey Lee Pierce also shared with Morrison taste for "erratic behavior" a little bigoted euphemism, meaning he came on stage drunk. And as Morrison in his best days (that is to say when he was very drunk and very funny), he indulged in endless soliloquies drunkard, in which he most often abused the public. I would have liked to see it.

Next comes "The Las Vegas Story" which some prefer to produce more robust and cleaner than the previous two. In the end, it does not matter so much, the compositions are always so stunning (the stoogien " Stranger in Our Town " acoustics "secret fires " "my dreams" "Give Up The Sun" ...) and times (a haunted version of "My Man's Gone Now" from Gershwin's "The masterplan "Free jazz of Pharaoh Sanders) still reflect a knowledge of music quite monumental. From there, life becomes a big Pierce anything from personnel changes, hepatitis, and various addictions, what's gangrene ... "career."

I have not listened to the following albums but it seems they are the first three need be (I just chop "Miami" and "Las Vegas Story", it's been awhile since I had not been also happy to buy a cd). I would listen to others and I'll talk if it's worth it. Later, Jon Spencer Blues (several albums have been reprinted recently) and the White Stripes will not forget to pay tribute to predecessors whom they owe so much. Even if Jack White seems very healthy view of what was crazy Jeffrey Lee Pierce.


Vianney G.