New Yeasayer Video - "Ambling Alp"
That technologically advanced NSFW preview does indeed get fleshed out in the official Radical Friend-directed video for Odd Blood's excellent teaser track "Ambling Alp." The psychedelically inclined/pop-morphing Baltimore crew cruise-line through their self-help fight song by having some All Hour Cymbals-faced beefcakes pummel each other, and by having their own Yeafaces massaged and dripped in pixelated goop in order to get taffy-pulled like underwater aliens from The Abyss and scream harmonies into those of innocently bystanding hipsters. It's only logical. Never mind what anybody else does, unless they're running through the ambling Alps on a pseudo-Ryan McGinley nudist marathon, in which case, join them. The vid's not interactive, but it is active. For your Gummys consideration:
Odd Blood is out 2/9 via Secretly Canadian.
Posted at 8:59 AM by amrit in Video
Tags: Yeasayer
Don't you mean to say "Brooklyn" crew?
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They're based out of Brooklyn, but originally from Baltimore. Awesome video!
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Hot damn! What's wrong with Baltimore? Everyone is leaving us for Brooklyn.
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How can you tell they're "hipsters"?! They're completely naked! The way that word is used is so funny to me sometimes.
And wow. Nudity has suddenly become so common in indie videos that the nude scenes in this one did not shock me in the least. And that's saying something.
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Clothes does not a hipster make! Take a look at the interactive preview, you can see the haircuts and the rest that helps you understand that they're not Wall St. I-bankers. Also, they're friends with Yeasayer. And they're running in a blog-rock video with no pants on. So they are either hipsters or homeless, I just decided to go with the former.
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Fair enough, sir. I'm actually becoming increasingly interested in the backgrounds of the Naked Video People. I smell an Onion story brewing.
And on another note, it's interesting to compare this new trend with the long bemoaned use of scantily clad video vixens in hip-hop videos. These videos have full nudity, but they're probably less sexual. And there seems to be more or less gender equality.
Let me stop before I write my own story.
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Yeah they are either hipsters or wall st. bankers, they can't be models, actors or just some really secure fans. Don't really care, but just saying, no reason to throw nasty words at people we don't know.
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Haha "hipster" is a "nasty word" now? Oh no!
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It's pretty obvious these people are professional streakers who enjoy the sounds of a good-quality indie rock band. Streakers are people too. And anyways... being nude is the way in which every single one of us were introduced to this world.
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GREAT VIDEO
BRILLIANT MUSIC
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some serious production value went into that puppy. my ears and eyes enjoyed!
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This song sounds like it belongs in the end credits of some Fred Savage movie.
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What, like Little Monsters? I could see that, considering they used TH "Road to Nowhere".
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er is that mj's glove at the end? how ambling apt
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Remember how after Nirvana got popular there was a conspicuous influx of dramatic, angry guitar-heavy bands fronted by long haired, stubbly blonde dudes with angst? Me too. Well, I'm not saying that Animal Collective are at Nirvana-level popularity or anything, but they're certainly well known enough that it seems like a flagrant grab for popularity to rip their sound of this blatantly. This song sounds suspiciously like "Fireworks" for the first half or so, except the the vocals are melodramatic schlock. Then when they change it up, it's so terrible that I long for the first half.
This is the new Puddle of Mudd (or at least Silverchair), but totes mystical and psychedelic and experimental, omg.
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Let's not be obnoxious, eh? I'm sure you're a decent person really. Probably just this internet stuff that makes you act like an arse.
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I'll admit the first comment was probably a bit much. Sorry to come off as obnoxious...but I'm sticking by the underlying point. I just think this band is really lame.
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That's fair enough, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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Animal collective isn't really the first band to sound like that so...
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Animal Collective may not be the first band to sound like this, but I would almost guarantee that's where Yeasayer is pulling from, influence wise. And yeah, the vocals do kind of sound like Miike Snow.
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If this song is a rip-off of anyone's style, I've been thinking that it's been reminding me a lot of Miike Snow. But in that good, new-pop way. Just sayin'.
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Don't you mean to say you're a "Douchebag"?
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wow this is awesome
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OMG what an amazing video :O
Never heard a song from this band before, eventhough i had listened the band's name...
really cool
one of my fave videos this year for sure!
liked the song too... gotta check em out :)
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i'm a fan of their first album..and i'm an asshole for ignoring the post where you put up the mp3 of this.this is the best song i've heard in months.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MKnRkb8qhE
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I like the song and everything but the "uplifting" lyrics in the chorus remind me of that Jimmy Eat World song "The Middle." I'm not sure if that's good or bad.
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the nude run at the end reminded me of Zabriskie Point - not a bad video!
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never listened to them before, i love the song! have to go get 2007 album now. :)
video is .. fun, i guess.
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i liked their last album a lot. jury's still out on this song, though. it reminds me of howard jones for some reason.
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This is a fun song with a video that lifts from a good deal of influences. Holy Mountain without the pedo notes. Love it.
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I feel that Maya Deren Deserves a little credit, check it out here;
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=4002812108181388236&hl=en&fs
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Yeasayer and Animal collective know each other from middle/high school. Brian and Dave of AC were 3 years ahead of Anand and Chris of Yeasayer. I wouldn't say that anyone is ripping anyone's sound, rather that the relationship pushed one another's sounds. Granted that was 10 years ago, but I know that they have kept in contact after the move to NY.
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lol @ people pigeonholing them as an animal collective ripoff just because they're a little weird/experimental and used water samples in this song...listen to their old album, the two bands are nothing alike
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quite frankly, i'm obsessed with this song and video. its great, even with all the nudity its far less sexual than the common rap/hip-hop/pop/rock video. very good!
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uhhh this sucks, this sucks so bad, it's kinda good. weird.
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WEAK
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This is now my most anticipated future release! Between this and Tightrope Yeasayer have replaced Dirty Projectors as my obsession of the moment.
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Both the song and video are painfully unoriginal
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Every so often, there isn't anything that filters down to me, that I rate as good in new music, and I lose interest. I simply go back to the old stuff that I missed first time around.
Then a band like Yeasayer come along and it restores my faith that there is good music currently being made. I don't care who they sound like, I just love this track/band, and the vid's pretty damn good as well. Even my 12 year old daughter was leaping around to this when it was on, and said that she really liked it. That doesn't happen that often in my house. Thanks for the post.
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