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All Hour Cymbals | 
| Manufacturer: We Are Free
Category: Digital Music Album
Buy New: $9.99
Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 5528
Genre: miscellaneous-audio-recordings
Media: MP3 Download
Running Time: 0 Minutes
ASIN: B000X7U8I4
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
Don't Overthink This October 4, 2008
M. Keller (Philadelphia, PA)
If you like any kind of 70's airy guitar psychadelia even just a little bit this album is perfect for you. I'll catch flack for this but my friends have been trying to get me into radiohead, and I prefer these guys for the simple reason is the vocals aren't horribly annoying. It just sounds less pretentious. Sorry for the diatribe just buy this you won't regret it. I've recommended this to 7 people and they all love it.
 This may need to be revisted and given 5 stars later August 9, 2008
Brian Moore (The OC , baby. Nothing like the show)
In my mind it's nearly impossible for an album to be a 5 star effort unless it influences and impacts music as a whole and often over more than one generation. I have only heard the album 6 or 7 times. Of course, to be fair, I have only had it for two days.
Personally I like the track No Need to Worry quite a bit. It reminds me of the grand simplicity of Pink Floyd or The Grateful Dead's Terrapin Station.
One thing that I think makes this band so spectacular is the fact that you can pick out possible sound influences from the above mentioned to a dash of The Fields to Radiohead. This is truly a unique album and does a great job of showcasing this band's genre defying sound.
In looking through these reviews, and writing this one, I am also struck with how many different songs are mentioned as favorites. There are many albums out there that have the singles that almost everyone likes and a bunch of filler of varying quality. You never get the sense that any of these songs was more or less important to the band than the last.
All reviewers on this page have tried to describe the sound. Tough to nail but dreamy , atmospheric, occasionally grand without being overpowering, world music tinged , with influences from a wide , wide range of very good bands. This albums stands on the shoulders of giants to stare into what should be a very bright future.
shoulder popping brain melting orgy of musical joy August 8, 2008
suko (boston, ma)
yeasayer .. genius. this album is a fusion of the funkiest beats and lyrical voices. there's a definite underlying haunt to every song. this album contains music that can carve mountains and slam the biggest waves; it's in accordance to the sacred beats of nature!
Beam me up, down, all around June 25, 2008
J.A. Peter (Washington, DC)
Imagine Fleetwood Mac jamming with Godsmack on the chant ending of "Voodoo," with the Incredible String Band joining in. Or Arcade Fire channeled through TV on the Radio and Gnarls Barkley. Or maybe Pink Floyd, Bright Eyes, and Talking Heads sitting in on a recording session for Jefferson Airplane's "Surrealistic Pillow" directed by Phil Spector with his "Wall of Sound." Welcome to Nuvo Psychedelia. Say "Yea"! On "All Hour Cymbals," the Yeasayers make shape-note hymns of the new millenium, especially those wondrous compositions about "Germs" and "Worms." Oh, and with sitars and tablas and buzz-drone, oh my! I love this CD.
Newly Classical June 14, 2008
The Goocat (Just over there to the right)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Have you ever wanted to learn what it would be like to travel as a Bedouin Spice Trader? Well, Yeasayer's "All Hour Cymbals" won't help you do that but it'll FEEL like it is and isn't that what really matters most?
They use all kind of crazy instruments here to reproduce a sound that's predominantly middle-eastern and infinitely funky. I think my friend Gary said they sometimes use this kind of guitar that somebody sits on. Crazy. They also use these drums that sound like somebody's name...what was it? Roy-roy's? No. Bob-bob's? Nah. ..I got it: bongo's!
This album is one of the best of the year so far. Just like my first wife's decaying corpse, it refuses to be put away. I find myself craving it if I go more than a day without. It's alternatively cool and relaxing, then quick and pounding; mostly, it's a fast friend who makes such a big impact in such a short time that you openly wonder how you got along before their arrival.
Personal favorites: Sunrise (beat-heavy, notifies you of their arrival, gets you moving); Wait for the Wintertime (tremendously kinetic, epic adventure across a continent); 2080 (his plaintive voice is trying to tell a story but who's got time to listen?); Wait for the Summer (walking through the market); Worms (an old man tells you a story & belly dancers seduce you as you're robbed - wake up!!).
Great for hoedowns and cataclysms.
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