I really love Yeasayer. There is something so energetic about their music and I really never tire of them. Lately, I have been listening to both their albums, Odd Blood and All Hour Symbols and consequently reading what other people have had to say about them. The reviews tend to all be along the line of "if you love one, then you'll hate the other", but I love them both in different ways. One reviewer claimed that it separated Yeasayer fans into the "hippies and the hipsters" (Odd blood being hipster and All Hour Symbols being hippie) but why can't you be both?  So many people also complained about two of my favourite tracks on Odd Blood "Mondegreen" and "Rome" (which I both find similar to The Cure, another of my favourite bands) saying they were a load of tripe and that Yeasayer had grossly failed. Some people assume that once they dislike a track or if a track has strayed from bands older material that it is ultimately a fail. Anyway, listen for yourself and see what you think:

The whole situation in Japan has been getting me down of late. The more I hear about radioactivity, death toll, freezing weather, lack of food, the more I feel.
Just when you think we have been suffering from enough disasters, another one strikes. I don't know why it has affected me so greatly. Is it because it has been televised more than other disasters? Surely, we have heard of so many people dying in so many horrendous ways, that you would think that by now, we would be desensitized towards it, however, quite the opposite, so much support has been shown by everyone. 
In truth, it hasn't just made me feel low and depressed, but excited too? I mean, how often do you get everyone working together like this? I feel like I'm putting on a real community spirit voice, which I would normally think to be a bit naff, but really, this is exciting.

Japan is such a wonderful place that it seems so unfair that it happened. A year ago we traveled to Japan, on our way from Australia to Ireland for 2 weeks, and it was one the most memorable experiences in my whole life. The culture is so strange, yet wonderful. I mean, where else do you by shirts and ties in corner shops called Family Mart? I'm scared that everything will have changed, that the calm composed nature of Japan will have disappeared.