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Single Reviews
Single Review: Yeasayer – ONE (EMI/Mute)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 7 April 2010
This single drips like water from a glass, everything about it has a wonderful, shimmering, wetness to it, complimented with a studied use of harmony. It opens with a captivating keyboard run that brings light into the darkness of creation before the full song opens up, glistening.
It is well known that Yeasayer’s influences span continents and here the congruity remains. Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ can be spotted lurking in the mist of that four to the floor bass drum pattern, accentuated as ever with African percussion. The vocals soar and are a real highlight, showing how easily Yeasayer have adapted their melodies to fit a more pop-centric sound. Indeed, it’s an impressive, almost Herculean effort after (the beautiful) ‘All Hour Cymbals’, and strikes a bold move for the band. SJS
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