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Mar 30, 2016With the aid of deft production and mild restraint, Amen & Goodbye is well within therapeutic range. Its hybrid of analogue and digital techniques have allowed Yeasayer to create their most enthralling and satisfying record to date.
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Apr 1, 2016What they share--and what almost the whole album offers--is a beautifully crafted, fearless balance of sweet and dark.
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Apr 22, 2016The blend of half-real and fake bodies, the beautiful and grotesque, sum up what makes this such a fun listen.
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Apr 21, 2016["Cold Night"] is not better or worse than the rest of Amen & Goodbye, but simply another layer of this beautiful, mind-blowing album.
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Apr 5, 2016Where this album sets itself apart is with Roche, her contributions otherworldly and out of time, strange Wicker Man chants both charming and sinister. Her siren song laces Amen & Goodbye's best moments.
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Mar 31, 2016This combining of the human-organic and the quirky-mechanical not only rewards repeat listens, but ultimately fascinates with warm alienation.
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Mar 31, 2016Yeasayer’s newly cloistered universe is peopled by moments of brilliant weirdness.
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Mar 31, 2016Yeasayer’s album is a brilliant, breathless, great big bundle of weird. It’s also their most innovative record to date.
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Apr 4, 2016Chris Keating and Anand Wilder's vocal leads in all their sing-song, almost Timberlake-ian glory, doing the most, belting it out stridently rather than hanging back mumblecore under cover of Lake Reverb.
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Apr 6, 2016The band are far from fans of modern pop and their twisted take on the genre continues to beguile and enchant in equal measure, but the ideas never overwhelm their fourth album. As a result, their return sees them get back to something like their captivating best.
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Mar 29, 2016Amen & Goodbye is undoubtedly a strong return but also one that’s just a couple of tracks short of something genuinely great.
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UncutMar 24, 2016A typically excellent set of unusual songs. [May 2016, p.82]
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Mar 29, 2016It's hard to decide if what Yeasayer have created with Amen & Goodbye is a case of pop genius, of if the result is a load of over the top, art-rock pretensions. It seems that whether Yeasayer are really the future sailors of experimental indie, still remains to be seen.
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Q MagazineMar 24, 2016Amen & Goodbye is an all-on-black attempt to rediscover their mojo. By and large, it's successful... The only minor caveat is that in the search for sonic and lyric transcendence, the band give off the slight air of Christina rock project. [May 2016, p.104]
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Apr 1, 2016Unfortunately, Amen & Goodbye largely works in the realms of humongous. There could well be a clear, concise thesis buried somewhere in all that business, but it’s very difficult to pick out amidst all the signifiers.
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Apr 5, 2016With songs that play like a grab-bag of genres and lyrics that have little of the humor or self-awareness the band displayed in the past, it's hard to muster the patience to uncover anything deeper.
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Apr 1, 2016It feels disjointed and incomplete.
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MojoMar 24, 2016Their fourth album largely abandons any subtlety in favour of a scattergun art racket. [May 2016, p.91]
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Mar 24, 2016Yeasayer constantly threaten to come out with a startling album; alas, Amen and Goodbye isn’t it.