Yeasayer “Love Me Girl”
Tucked away in the mid-section of their hyped-to-the-heavens second offering Odd Blood, the admirably near-uncategorizable Brooklyn indie-rockers Yeasayer go even odd-er (if such a thing is even possible) by getting all early-00′s teen-pop on our asses with the computerized white boy funk workout of “Love Me Girl”.
Far different than anything they’ve ever put to tape, at it’s core, “Love Me Girl” teeters on being an awkward mess, it’s struggle at finding a comfortable common ground between New Romantic swooning and Timberlake-ian herky-jerk R&B glitch never quite gelling as well as the band seems to think it does.
So why do we stamp it as being an album standout, anyway? Partly because we kinda-sorta dig the nervous tension in the song’s lyrics (it follows one man on the verge of an emotional breakdown as his current relationship fizzles out before his eyes); but mostly because of it’s begging-to-be-looped two minute long intro, a dramatic synth-based build-up excitingly peppered with animal cackles and haunting vocoder tags that hints of the best rave ever bursting alive around you at any moment.
Take a listen to the amazingly launched cut below, followed by a bonus offering of The Very Best‘s merry overdub of Odd Blood‘s lead single “Ambling Alp” (shouts).
“Love Me Girl”:
BONUS DL: Yeasayer “Ambling Alp (The Very Best ‘Mulomo’ Remix)” (alt)
