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Yeasayer were supremely slick, their falsetto vocals, tight guitar riffs and infectious beats prompting a spot of enthusiastic afternoon dancing.
The vocals twinkle as delicately as the fairy lights that surround her, blasting into thumping sections that highlight the influence of tonight's "psych-snap" support Yeasayer on her newest work.
Blending the 1960s summery pop of The Beach Boys with psychedelic synths and the adventurous beats and experimental instrumentation of Yeasayer or Vampire Weekend, Jono Ma and vocalist Gabriel Winterfield have been supporting Foals on tour – and have a debut album due later in the year.
He's one of the three songwriters, singers and multi-instrumentalists in the Brooklyn band Yeasayer, along with Chris Keating, 28, and Ira Wolf Tuton, 30.
The 2013 lineup dips into indie rock (Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear ,Yeasayer, Deerhunter), dance music (Pretty Lights, Dillon Francis, Icona Pop), hip-hop (Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Azealia Banks), R&B (Erykah Badu), roots-rock (Lumineers, the Avett Brothers), old-school arena rock (Guns N' Roses), even reggae from Steel Pulse and Texas blues-rock from Gary Clark Jr.
(Those sorts of music were played in DJ sets — by Dan Deacon, Yeasayer and others — two blocks from the pier at the festival's Indoor Lounge, overrun with sponsors).
(Anderson) Yeasayer and Tanlines (Wednesday) Guitars get the boot, by and large, on the Brooklyn psychedelic-rock band Yeasayer's latest album, "Fragrant World" (Secretly Canadian).
Yeasayer, whose songs delight in intellectual constructs and musical convolutions, faced happy, hands-in-the-air fans who picked up the band's elements of disco and electronica and danced to them.
It's success enough to encourage Yeasayer to risk giving its fans what they don't expect.
When Mr. Wilder sings "Hold me like before, hold me like you used to" in the song "O.N.E.," with drum machines and plinking, booping keyboards, Yeasayer could almost be an electropop band.
