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9.0
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music OMH
Unlike fellow Brooklynites MGMT and Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer retain enough depth and weirdness to keep the most cynical hipsters twirling their moustaches in admiration
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9.0
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The Music Fix
In one of those “Just when you think everything has been done before” moments this Brooklyn quartet turn everything on its head with an album that really sounds unlike anything else ever recorded
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9.0
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God Is In The TV
The comparison to Animal Collective is a justifiable one, both are experimental alternative bands driven towards creating brand new sounding material, both are brilliant
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8.0
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Spin
The biggest, boldest, and best moments ... nod flamboyantly to influences never before evident ... but somehow they're seamlessly integrated with trippier old jams
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8.0
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Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
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Q
Print edition only
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8.0
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Observer Music Monthly
The record revolves around that reverb-heavy, carnival-esque wall-of-sound that has dominated American indie in recent years
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8.0
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Uncut
Print edition only
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8.0
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The List
Yeasayer’s easy listening electro is nigh-on avant-garde
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8.0
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NME
There’s so many layers here – samples, sound effects, coos, squawks, chirrups, chants, piano loops, percussive clicks, digital zips – but intertwined there remains those melodies, as old as time itself
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8.0
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Eye Weekly
A huge improvement over the obvious weirdness of All Hour Cymbals, Odd Blood is a near-perfect blend of art-damaged sugar pop
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8.0
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The Fly
A record that’s hard to keep up with and even harder to ignore. A monumental return
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8.0
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The Guardian
Odd Blood comparts styles and sounds of the world into an easy duty-free package, and, in doing so, absolutely throbs with vigour
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8.0
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Evening Standard
It's all supremely hummable with enough weirdness still going on in the margins to keep the beard-stroking hipsters on side.
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8.0
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The Times
...a rousing mix of Eighties influences, electro and wild experimentation
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8.0
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The Observer
The off-kilter percussive clatter of yore comes allied to pulsing tunes
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8.0
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The Sunday Times
...one of the most innovative releases of the year so far
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8.0
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Independent on Sunday
...an idyllic hybrid of Cat Stevens, early Peter Gabriel, MGMT and Talk Talk as the Brooklyn trio slip through the gears
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
Held together with thundering, radio-ready drums and choruses that wouldn't sound out of place in a Depeche Mode song
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8.0
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The Quietus
There's simply too much to react to when listening for the first or even fifth time: regardless of this, you are convinced the five piece have a thorough understanding of their direction
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7.0
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Rave Magazine
Odd Blood is a disjointed beast of an album with some great highlights; it won’t be enough to parlay Yeasayer’s current fame into long-term success, but it promises enough to make their next album an exciting prospect, too
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7.0
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Drowned In Sound
So yeah, maaaaybe Odd Blood isn’t quite the hive of unfathomably exotic treats that a few of the tracks might have initially suggested
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7.0
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Clash
It’s an unabashed pop record that anyone should be proud to play at full volume
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7.0
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Pop Matters
Laced with jungle-dense beats and rainbow synths, dipped in an overwhelmingly psychedelic veneer
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7.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
The pace of Yeasayer’s growth is admirable; but still, let’s not blow this out of proportion. Odd Blood is an album whose highs are higher than its lows are low; those valleys are
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6.5
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The Line Of Best Fit
Like a New Year’s Eve party that starts with fireworks and make-out sessions but fails to even last until midnight
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6.1
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Pitchfork
On the whole, the record alternates between a prog-rock version of 80s UK synth-pop (and those are the good songs) and dreadlocky alt-pop or yuppie-era world music imitations (aaaand... those are the bad ones)
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6.0
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The Skinny
With Odd Blood, Yeasayer earn their stripes as indie-pop innovators, but they would surely benefit from exercising just a tad more control over their wild, conflicting urges
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6.0
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Daily Telegraph
...a touch too clever-clever in their structure and rhythms for the mainstream
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6.0
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The Scotsman
...on the tribal chant of Madder Red, their contribution to the global party is more Lion King than Graceland
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6.0
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The Independent
The resulting eclectic confections threaten to spiral off into cosmic nonsense, but remain anchored in pop territory by the solid drumming of top session man Jerry Marotta
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