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Yeasayer at Heaven, Feb 23rd – Live Review
Yeasayer bring the beats, hot and sweaty
Written by Emma Tucker
Illustration courtesy of Harry Williams
Yeasayer kicked off their show at the very hot and sweaty Heaven with 'Odd Blood''s opener track "The Children". This seemed like a bit of an odd choice to start with, considering that it's the least poppy track of an album that's an homage to beautifully executed pop. It also seemed like the audience were decidedly underwhelmed to begin with, and weren't really sure what to do with a less well known song. In fact I'm sure half of them were there only for the purposes of hearing "Ambling Alp" and going home.
In a strange way the sinister distorted vocals of "The Children" set the scene for them to launch into the more upbeat songs from 'Odd Blood', and things only improved from there on out. Their set was heavily focused on newer songs, and high points of the night included "Strange Reunions", "Mondegreen", "Love Me Girl", "Ambling Alp", "I Remember" and "ONE". By the time they had got to "ONE" the crowd seemed to know what was going on, and had generated some enthusiasm for them at last. To help matters, Yeasayer were accompanied… read more
