Yeasayer Announces New Album Amen & Goodbye
LISTEN + WATCHΒ βI AM CHEMISTRYβ
Mute Artists
Mute is ecstatic to announce that Amen & Goodbye, the fourth studio album from Brooklyn-based band Yeasayer, will be released worldwide on April 1, 2016.
Today, Yeasayer offers a peek into the world of Amen & Goodbye with βI Am Chemistry,β the first track to be heard from their highly anticipated forthcoming album.Β Featuring guest vocals from the legendary folk singer Suzzy Roche of The Roches, βI Am Chemistryβ is a linear psychedelic journey proving Yeasayer still has the knack for writing very odd pop songs.
To visually interpret the album, Yeasayer collaborated with renowned sculptor David Altmejd (whose artwork is a major influence on the band) to create the gatefold artwork.Β The teasers released prior to “I Am Chemistry” contained some of the sculptures Altmejd created while listening to the bands new album.Β This was a dream come true for the band and the full artwork (to be revealed later) is utterly spectacular
Melding the song and vision of Yeasayer and Altmejd, director group New Team Ltd have created the music video for “I Am Chemistry.” Yes, itβs as odd and fantastic as youβd expect from a Yeasayer music video. Viewers will enjoy a cosmonaut giving birth, dancing statue children, landscapes strewn with disfigured monuments, poisonous pod plants, and neon caves.
Amen & Goodbye is the follow up to 2012βs Fragrant World.Β Moving away from a digital-heavy approach, Yeasayer recorded Amen & Goodbye to tape at Outlier Inn Studio in upstate New York, then brought on board Joey Waronker (drummer – Atoms For Peace / Beck) to deconstruct everything to make the final document.
Amen & Goodbye features Yeasayerβs trademark sound, without sounding like anything the band has done before. They have created a collection of strange fables from the Bible of a universe that does not yet exist.
TOUR DATES:
Yeasayer will tour in support of Amen & Goodbye – live dates to be announced.
Yeasayer
Amen And Goodbye
(Mute Artists)
Release Date: April 1,2016
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AMEN & GOODBYE TRACKLISTING
1 Daughters Of Cain
2 I Am Chemistry
3 Silly Me
4 Half Asleep
5 Dead Sea Scrolls
6 Prophecy Gun
7 Computer Canticle 1
8 Divine Simulacrum
9 Child Prodigy
10 Gerson’s Whistle
11 Uma
12 Cold Night
13 Amen & Goodbye
Yeasayer is: Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton and Anand Wilder
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