New Yeasayer - "Tightrope"

Yesterday the National delivered "So Far Around The Bend," Dark Was The Night's most immediate track to date in a lineup that's also brought us Dirty Projectors + David Byrne, the Books with Jose Gonzalez, Feist + Ben, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, and The National. It's an issue of The New Yorker come to life! It's also a good compilation. For a good cause. For instance, today we find Yeasayer clapping their way across a "Tightrope." 24 hours ago Matt Berninger & Co. demanded we listen closely to words to get their Big Apple storyline. This morning you can push your chair back and focus on Yeasayer's rhythms and textures (and rainstick) and hop onto the lyrics later. It's at MySpace.

Dark Was The Night is out 2/17 via 4AD and benefits the Red Hot Organization.

Posted at 9:37 AM by brandon
Tags: Dark Was The Night | Yeasayer

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http://hayatbayat.blogspot.com/2009/01/yeasayer-tightrope.html

Posted by: asdfbear at 01/21/09 9:58 AM  | Reply
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thank goodness for web sheriff.

Posted by: davedavedave  in reply to asdfbear's comment at 01/21/09 3:46 PM  | Reply
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Nice ... I started clapping as well. Thanks asdfbear ... no worries.... I will buy this album when released.

Posted by: Burg at 01/21/09 10:14 AM  | Reply
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So far I give this compilation a 9.614159265358979323846, and can't wait for a new Yeasayer album.

Posted by: Deezey at 01/21/09 10:49 AM  | Reply
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This band is the future.

Posted by: Voyno at 01/21/09 1:00 PM  | Reply
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Ahhhh, very nice.

Posted by: Aaron at 01/21/09 1:10 PM  | Reply
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i've heard this song before, is it on one of their albums? do they play it live?

Posted by: ? at 01/21/09 2:54 PM  | Reply
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they played it in their take away show

Posted by: genevieve  in reply to ?'s comment at 01/21/09 3:08 PM  | Reply
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asdfbear you are amazin!

Posted by: clapham junction at 01/21/09 4:24 PM  | Reply
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Love Love Love this album, and i havent even heard my favorite artists tracks yet.

Posted by: Brian at 01/21/09 9:59 PM  | Reply
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Love this band. New album is gonna be the tits

Posted by: jacksfork at 01/22/09 2:27 AM  | Reply
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Kudos to Red Hot/4AD for this album, of course, but here's an instance where they don't know quite what they're doing: a live rendition of this song for Minnesota Public Radio, from last October, has been pulled from YouTube. Web Sheriff is busting public radio now, too? Lame. http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/10/30/yeasayer/

Posted by: Jonk at 01/22/09 3:14 AM  | Reply
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I should note that it's a video that was pulled, not audio, from YouTube. I don't know how somebody watching Yeasayer play months ago for Minnesota Public Radio is going to harm the sales of the proper audio recording version?

Posted by: Jonk  in reply to Jonk's comment at 01/22/09 6:07 AM  | Reply
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Saw this song live a year ago, this was the setlist: http://myheartsbeat.blogspot.com/2008/02/yeasayer-and-mgmt-bowery-feb-13th.html

Posted by: myheartsbeat at 01/22/09 11:43 AM  | Reply
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