Yeasayer loves Belgium and, yes, the Belgians love Yeasayer. More even: Yeasayer loves AB and we love Yeasayer. Piece of evidence I: this is already Yeasayer’s third visit to AB since their stage debut in the AB Club in ’08. Piece of evidence II: in ’10 Yeasayer released an album entitled: ‘Live At The Ancienne Belgique’. We rest our case.

Yeasayer is one of those bands that apparently effortlessly absorbs all sorts of genres and trends and then manages to produce a universal sound. They manage to do so in the first place because the 3 band members are dreamy, adventurous multi-instrumentalists. That then produces the sort of albums that give us hope for music's future. That was the case with their debut ‘All Hour Cymbals’ (’07) and the same was certainly valid for the more pop oriented successor ‘Odd Blood’ (‘10). But then, together with MGMT and Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer forms the holy-trinity that represents musical free-thinking from Brooklyn anno 2012... and trivia-hunters may be interested to note that Brooklyn was originally established by the Netherlanders as Breuckelen. Their latest, yet to be released album ‘Fragrant World’ will see the light of day at the end of the summer. The band about that: “This is not a dish of pop rocks like ‘Odd Blood’, instead ‘Fragrant World’ is something much weirder and darker. It’s like a demented R&B record or like an Aaliyah album if you played it backwards and slowed it down. Or David Bowie's 'Lodger'. Those two are major influences." We're curious!

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On January 1st, during the first hours of 2010, Antoine Meersseman and Tim Philippe improvised a first rehearsal in a small room in Brussels. After their show at Atelier 210 a few months later, the music programmer was so impressed that he started the label Limite Records, where the band released their first 7”. Thanks to word of mouth, they have shared the stage with Suuns, Django Django and Cloud Nothings, and expanded their territory from Brussels to Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp and even Paris! And the music itself? It can best be described as an overexposed pastel coloured polaroid of California.