Yeasayer are officially following up 2012's fantastic Fragrant World with their 4th full length record, Amen & Goodbye, via Mute on 4/1. The Brooklyn band have been teasing quite thoroughly with several small snippets being sprinkled around the internet in past days, but have now revealed the first full taste with a music video for leading single "I Am Chemistry."
Featuring an unholy marriage of sci-fi and psychedelia, "I Am Chemistry" appears to be a faux-claymation computer animated hellscape in line with the captivatingly bizarre digital aesthetic first introduced circa Odd Blood. Deformed incarnations of the trio dance among undulating orchids to the sound of freak synth grooves and a curious choral interlude.
The post-apocalyptic foreign world depicted even seems to contain a severed Trump dictator statue head rotting in the background at the 1:12 and 1:35 marks, which would be their first political foray since "Reagan's Skeleton."
EDIT: Yeasayer has confirmed:
A press release describes the forthcoming release as “a collection of strange fables from the Bible of a universe that does not yet exist," which, after viewing the tracklist, seems to be the only possible explanation.
Amen & Goodbye
- Daughters Of Cain
- I Am Chemistry
- Silly Me
- Half Asleep
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Prophecy Gun
- Computer Canticle 1
- Divine Simulacrum
- Child Prodigy
- Gerson’s Whistle
- Uma
- Cold Night
- Amen & Goodbye
Amen & Goodbye
You can preorder Amen & Goodbye here.