Yeasayer share new video 'Silly Me'

Today, Yeasayer share their new video for “Silly Me”, the band’s current single taken from their recently released fourth studio album, Amen & Goodbye. Directed by Mike Anderson / New Media Ltd, the odd and fascinating video is the prequel to “I Am Chemistry” and is available to watch here.

Explains Anderson, “We use a pretty unique approach, pretty much everything in every frame is handmade and hand-painted. We then 3D scan all of it, bringing it into the computer so it's entirely recreated digitally. We record motion-capture of performers and apply the data to the characters for the animation. The lighting is all done in the computer. So while the final product is ostensibly CGI, nearly everything you're seeing is a digital record of something we directed or fabricated in real-life. Best of all worlds.”

Amen & Goodbye is the follow-up to 2012’s Fragrant World. Watch the video for their previous single, “I Am Chemistry” here, featuring guest vocals from the legendary folk singer Suzzy Roche of The Roches.

Yeasayer are currently on tour in North America (with Young Magic as support), and will return to the UK and Europe in June. The tour will include an intimate sold out show at Oslo in London on Friday 10 June ahead of their performance on the main stage at Field Day. A full UK tour is soon to be announced for later in the year. Full dates below:

• 20 – 22 May: USA: Atlanta, GA: Shaky Beats Music Festival
• 21 May: USA: Nashville, TN: Exit/In
• 22 May: USA: Detroit, MI: The Majestic Theatre
• 23 May: USA: Chicago, IL: Lincoln Hall
• 24 May: USA: Minneapolis, MN: First Avenue
• 27 May: USA: George, WA: Sasquatch Music Festival
• 28 May: Canada: Vancouver, BC: Imperial Vancouver
• 29 May: USA: Portland, OR: Wonder Ballroom
• 31 May: USA: San Francisco, CA: The Fillmore Auditorium
• 1 June: USA: Los Angeles, CA: The Fonda Theatre
• 2 June: USA: San Diego, CA: The Observatory North
• 3 June: USA: Santa Ana, CA: The Observatory
• 5 June: USA: Dallas, TX: Bulladora Music Festival
• 10 June: UK: London: Oslo - SOLD OUT
• 11 June: UK: London: Field Day Festival in Victoria Park, Main Stage
• 12 June: Belgium: Gent: Handelsbeurs Concertzaal
• 14 June: Norway: Oslo: Parkteatret
• 15 June: Norway: Bergen: Bergenfest
• 17 – 19 June: Denmark: Aarhus: Northside Festival
• 17 – 19 June: Netherlands: Beekse Bergen, Best Kept Secret Festival
• 20 June: Switzerland: Lausanne: Les Docks
• 21 June: Italy: Marina Di Ravenna: Hana Bi
• 20 – 22 June: Croatia: Zagreb: INmusic Festival
• 24 June: Germany: Scheessel: Hurricane
• 25 June: Germany: Neuhausen: Southside
• 15 July: USA: North Lake Tahoe, CA: Wanderlust Festival
• 28 July: USA: Chicago, IL: Lollapalooza

PRAISE FOR ‘AMEN & GOODBYE’:

• “say hello to Yeasayer's best work to date” - The Line Of Best Fit
• "...a return to form" – Crack
• ‘'a brilliant, breathless, great big bundle of weird. It’s also their most innovative record to date” - DIY
• “A brilliantly engaging and measured meander between order and chaos” - Gigwise
• "Rhythmically kinetic and sonically hyperactive, barely settling for fear of falling still” - Drowned In Sound
• “a band at their delirious and playful best” - Clash Music
• "Yeasayer have again emerged from the chrysalis a beautiful, transformed butterfly” – Creators Project
• "one of a clutch of recent full-lengths that, while unrelated in sound, take the modern listening experience and reflect it back to the listener" - Idolator
• "...a rippling, floating number driven by pattering bongos and an airy choir of backing singers" (on "Gerson's Whistle") – Stereogum
• “shows the band really hasn't slowed down, each new segment blending into the next flawlessly to create a nice, complex composition” - Noisey