Fragrant World

Brooklyn indie experimentalists Yeasayer return with their third album, Fragrant World, a continuation of the murky textures and psychedelic melodies of their sophomore effort, 2010's Odd Blood. The album was recorded in various Brooklyn studios throughout the fall of 2011, with mixing sessions taking place in the early months of 2012 and the finishing touches being handled by Bat for Lashes producer Dan Carey in London. Apart from a broad range of hallucinatory experiments with synthesizers and effects pedals by the band, special guests were called in to augment the cracked pop songs, including Kishi Bashi on strings and a kalimba overdub from Nomo's Elliot Bergman. Before the album's release, the band and their label conducted a digital scavenger hunt, hiding links to YouTube videos for each of the albums 11 tracks on various websites, allowing fans to search them out and stream the album in its entirety weeks before the release. The videos added incredibly trippy visuals to the songs, and acted as teasers for the record, being disabled a few days after all their locations were widely reported on.