Song · Yeasayer
“I Am Chemistry” by Yeasayer
From the album Amen & Goodbye (2016)
“I Am Chemistry” by Yeasayer appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2016. It was first released in 2016 on the album Amen & Goodbye. Its best result is #62 on the WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #293 indie & aaa song of 2016.
Yeasayer broke a four-year silence with "I Am Chemistry", the lead single from their fourth album, Amen & Goodbye, which Mute Records sent out on January 7, 2016. Chris Keating, Anand Wilder and Ira Wolf Tuton wrote it together, and it's a five-minute neo-psychedelic trip that keeps shifting shape, produced by the band with Joey Waronker and mixed by Matty Green.
The lyric reads like a poisoner's shopping list, name-checking digoxin, VX, sodium cyanide, DDT, sarin, oleander, rue, mustard gas and Quaker buttons, which is to say strychnine. The bridge goes to a guest, Suzzy Roche of the Roches, and the cover art came from sculptor David Altmejd, who made the album's artwork too.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 62 | WFUV New York, NY | WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2016 | 90 |
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