SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “SILLY ME” – THE PREQUEL TO “I AM CHEMISTRY”
DIRECTED BY MIKE ANDERSON
WATCH IT HERE
“SILLY ME” IS TAKEN FROM THE NEW ALBUM
AMEN & GOODBYE, OUT NOW ON MUTE
“…excellent set of unusual songs” – Uncut
“…pop music at its finest – slick, shiny, huge sounding and laden with hooks” – Loud & Quiet
“the trio have triumphed” – Metro
“moments of brilliant weirdness” – The Guardian
Yeasayer share their new video for “Silly Me”, the band’s current single taken from their recently released fourth studio album, Amen & Goodbye.
Directed by Mike Anderson / New Media Ltd, the odd and fascinating video is the prequel to “I Am Chemistry” and is available to watch here.
Anderson explains, “We use a pretty unique approach, pretty much everything in every frame is handmade and hand-painted. We then 3D scan all of it, bringing it into the computer so it’s entirely recreated digitally. We record motion-capture of performers and apply the data to the characters for the animation. The lighting is all done in the computer. So while the final product is ostensibly CGI, nearly everything you’re seeing is a digital record of something we directed or fabricated in real-life. Best of all worlds.”
Amen & Goodbye is the follow-up to 2012’s Fragrant World. Watch the video for their previous single, “I Am Chemistry” here, featuring guest vocals from the legendary folk singer Suzzy Roche of The Roches.
Yeasayer are touring North America (with Young Magic as support), UK and Europe this May and June, including an intimate sold out show at Oslo in London on Friday 10 June ahead of their performance on the main stage at Field Day. A full UK tour is soon to be announced for later in the year. Full dates below:
20 – 22 May: USA: Atlanta, GA: Shaky Beats Music Festival
21 May: USA: Nashville, TN: Exit/In
22 May: USA: Detroit, MI: The Majestic Theatre
23 May: USA: Chicago, IL: Lincoln Hall
24 May: USA: Minneapolis, MN: First Avenue
27 May: USA: George, WA: Sasquatch Music Festival
28 May: Canada: Vancouver, BC: Imperial Vancouver
29 May: USA: Portland, OR: Wonder Ballroom
31 May: USA: San Francisco, CA: The Fillmore Auditorium
1 June: USA: Los Angeles, CA: The Fonda Theatre
2 June: USA: San Diego, CA: The Observatory North
3 June: USA: Santa Ana, CA: The Observatory
5 June: USA: Dallas, TX: Bulladora Music Festival
10 June: UK: London: Oslo – SOLD OUT
11 June: UK: London: Field Day Festival in Victoria Park, Main Stage
12 June: Belgium: Gent: Handelsbeurs Concertzaal
14 June: Norway: Oslo: Parkteatret
15 June: Norway: Bergen: Bergenfest
17 – 19 June: Denmark: Aarhus: Northside Festival
17 – 19 June: Netherlands: Beekse Bergen, Best Kept Secret Festival
20 June: Switzerland: Lausanne: Les Docks
21 June: Italy: Marina Di Ravenna: Hana Bi
20 – 22 June: Croatia: Zagreb: INmusic Festival
24 June: Germany: Scheessel: Hurricane
25 June: Germany: Neuhausen: Southside
28 July: USA: Chicago, IL: Lollapalooza
“say hello to Yeasayer’s best work to date” – The Line Of Best Fit
“…a return to form” – Crack
‘’a brilliant, breathless, great big bundle of weird. It’s also their most innovative record to date” – DIY
“A brilliantly engaging and measured meander between order and chaos” – Gigwise
“Rhythmically kinetic and sonically hyperactive, barely settling for fear of falling still” –Drowned In Sound
“a band at their delirious and playful best” – Clash Music
“Yeasayer have again emerged from the chrysalis a beautiful, transformed butterfly” – Creators Project
“one of a clutch of recent full-lengths that, while unrelated in sound, take the modern listening experience and reflect it back to the listener” – Idolator
“…a rippling, floating number driven by pattering bongos and an airy choir of backing singers” (on “Gerson’s Whistle”) – Stereogum
“shows the band really hasn’t slowed down, each new segment blending into the next flawlessly to create a nice, complex composition” – Noisey
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