Odd Blood by Yeasayer

Odd Blood, Yeasayer's second album, reached European shops on Secretly Canadian on February 8, 2010, with North America getting it the following day, and it's the Brooklyn band dragging their psychedelic sprawl out onto the dance floor. They produced it themselves in New York state during 2009, most of it with engineer Steve Revitte in a secluded cabin studio, tinkering with unusual instruments and recording machines and bringing in extra players where they needed them.

The plan was to bolt all that experimentation onto real pop songs, and it works: rubbery textures, worldbeat rhythms and hooks you can hum. Chris Keating and Anand Wilder, the main songwriters, sing about boxing, addiction and paranoia, with a few straight-up love songs in the mix. "Ambling Alp", "O.N.E.", "Madder Red" and "I Remember" went out as singles, and critics mostly cheered how neatly it stitched the genres together.

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