YEASAYER Share new video for ‘SILLY ME’ the prequel to "I AM CHEMISTRY" from new album "AMEN & GOODBYE

By Chris Todd

On May 18, 2016

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SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “SILLY ME” – THE PREQUEL TO “I AM CHEMISTRY” DIRECTED BY MIKE ANDERSON

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“SILLY ME” IS TAKEN FROM THE NEW ALBUM AMEN & GOODBYE, OUT NOW ON MUTE

“Brooklyn art-rockers return refreshed” – Q

“…excellent set of unusual songs” – Uncut

“…pop music at its finest – slick, shiny, huge sounding and laden with hooks” – Loud & Quiet

“the trio have triumphed” – Metro

“moments of brilliant weirdness” – The Guardian

Today, Yeasayer share their new video for “Silly Me”, the band’s current single taken from their recently released fourth studio album, Amen & Goodbye.

Directed by Mike Anderson / New Media Ltd, the odd and fascinating video is the prequel to “I Am Chemistry” and is available to watch below.

Explains Anderson, “We use a pretty unique approach, pretty much everything in every frame is handmade and hand-painted. We then 3D scan all of it, bringing it into the computer so it’s entirely recreated digitally. We record motion-capture of performers and apply the data to the characters for the animation. The lighting is all done in the computer. So while the final product is ostensibly CGI, nearly everything you’re seeing is a digital record of something we directed or fabricated in real-life. Best of all worlds.”

Amen & Goodbye is the follow-up to 2012’s Fragrant World. Watch the video for their previous single, “I Am Chemistry” here, featuring guest vocals from the legendary folk singer Suzzy Roche of The Roches.

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Yeasayer are currently on tour in North America (with Young Magic as support), and will return to the UK and Europe in June. The tour will include an intimate sold out show at Oslo in London on Friday 10 June ahead of their performance on the main stage at Field Day. A full UK tour is soon to be announced for later in the year. Full dates below:

17 May: USA: Philadelphia, PA: Union Transfer

19 May: USA: Asheville, NC: The Orange Peel

20 – 22 May: USA: Atlanta, GA: Shaky Beats Music Festival

21 May: USA: Nashville, TN: Exit/In

22 May: USA: Detroit, MI: The Majestic Theatre

23 May: USA: Chicago, IL: Lincoln Hall

24 May: USA: Minneapolis, MN: First Avenue

27 May: USA: George, WA: Sasquatch Music Festival

28 May: Canada: Vancouver, BC: Imperial Vancouver

29 May: USA: Portland, OR: Wonder Ballroom

31 May: USA: San Francisco, CA: The Fillmore Auditorium

1 June: USA: Los Angeles, CA: The Fonda Theatre

2 June: USA: San Diego, CA: The Observatory North

3 June: USA: Santa Ana, CA: The Observatory

5 June: USA: Dallas, TX: Bulladora Music Festival

10 June: UK: London: Oslo – SOLD OUT

11 June: UK: London: Field Day Festival in Victoria Park, Main Stage

12 June: Belgium: Gent: Handelsbeurs Concertzaal

14 June: Norway: Oslo: Parkteatret

15 June: Norway: Bergen: Bergenfest

17 – 19 June: Denmark: Aarhus: Northside Festival

17 – 19 June: Netherlands: Beekse Bergen, Best Kept Secret Festival

20 June: Switzerland: Lausanne: Les Docks

21 June: Italy: Marina Di Ravenna: Hana Bi

20 – 22 June: Croatia: Zagreb: INmusic Festival

24 June: Germany: Scheessel: Hurricane

25 June: Germany: Neuhausen: Southside

15 July: USA: North Lake Tahoe, CA: Wanderlust Festival

28 July: USA: Chicago, IL: Lollapalooza

PRAISE FOR ‘AMEN & GOODBYE’:

“say hello to Yeasayer’s best work to date” – The Line Of Best Fit

“…a return to form” – Crack

‘’a brilliant, ” – DIYbreathless, great big bundle of weird. It’s also their most innovative record to date

“A brilliantly engaging and measured Gigwisemeander between order and chaos” –

“Rhythmically kinetic and sonically hyperactive, barely settling for fear of falling still” –Drowned In Sound

“a band at their – Clash Musicdelirious and playful best”

“Yeasayer have again emerged from the chrysalis a beautiful, transformed butterfly” – Creators Project

“one of a clutch of recent full-lengths that, while unrelated in sound, take the modern listening experience and reflect it back to the listener” – Idolator

“…a rippling, floating number driven by (on “Gerson’s Whistle”) – Stereogumpatteringbongos and an airy choir of backing singers”

“shows the band really hasn’t slowed down, each new segment blending into the next flawlessly to create a nice, complex composition” – Noisey

Yeasayer are: Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton and Anand Wilder

“Silly Me” video