Yeasayer have shared a new track from Amen & Goodbye due out April 1, which serves as a followup to 2012’s Fragrant World. The new work moves away from the well arranged, digital-heavy tones into a sound unique to the band, which can be heard on “Gerson’s Whistle,” featuring vocals from Suzzy Roche (The Roches).
Yeasayer recorded Amen & Goodbye live to tape in upstate New York at Outlier Studio. As a loose concept, the new finished body has a loose underlying narrative based off religion and transcendence, the afterlife, and the search for meaning. The songs play together like a collection of odd tales from a Bible of some nonexistent universe.
Yeasayer previously shared “Silly Me” and a video to accompany “I Am Chemistry” along with a series of album teasers, one of which features “Prophecy Gun,” another new track that sounds like Yeasayer, but stands out from their previous work.
Yeasayer is heading out on tour this Spring, including a headline performance at Irving Plaza in New York. A full set of dates are listed below; For tickets, album pre-order, or any other info visit the band’s website Here.
May 12: Portland, ME: Port City Music Hall
May 13: Boston, MA: Paradise Rock Club
May 14: New York, NY: Irving Plaza
May 16: Washington, DC: 9:30 Club
May 17: Philadelphia, PA: Union Transfer
May 19: Asheville, NC: The Orange Peel
May 20–22: Atlanta, GA: Shaky Beats Music Festival
May 21: Nashville, TN: Exit/In
May 22: Detroit, MI: The Majestic Theatre
May 23: Chicago, IL: Lincoln Hall
May 24: Minneapolis, MN: First Avenue
May 27: George, WA: Sasquatch Music Festival
May 28: Vancouver, BC: Imperial Vancouver
May 29: Portland, OR: Wonder Ballroom
May 31: San Francisco, CA: The Fillmore Auditorium
June 1: Los Angeles, CA: The Fonda Theatre
June 2: San Diego, CA: The Observatory North
June 5: Dallas, TX: Bulladora Music Festival
June 10: UK, London: Oslo – SOLD OUT
June 11: UK, London: Field Day Festival in Victoria Park, Main Stage
June 12: Belgium, Gent: Handelsbeurs Concertzaal
June 14: Norway, Oslo: Parkteatret
June 15: Norway, Bergen: Bergenfest
June 17-19: Denmark, Aarhus: Northside Festival
June 17-19: Netherlands, Beekse Bergen, Best Kept Secret Festival
June 20: Switzerland, Lausanne: Les Docks
June 21: Italy, Marina Di Ravenna: Hana Bi
June 20-22: Croatia, Zagreb: Inmusic Festival
June 24: Germany, Scheessel: Hurricane
June 25: Germany, Neuhausen: Southside
July 15: North Lake Tahoe, CA: Wanderlust Festival
July 28: Chicago, IL: Lollapalooza Festival
Amen & Goodbye Tracklisting:
1. Daughters Of Cain
2. I Am Chemistry
3. Silly Me
4. Half Asleep
5. Dead Sea Scrolls
6. Prophecy Gun
7. Computer Canticle 1
8. Divine Simulacrum
9. Child Prodigy
10. Gerson’s Whistle
11. Uma
12. Cold Night
13. Amen & Goodbye
Pre-Order:
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