Yeasayer: Odd Blood

After 2009's Animal Collective/Grizzly Bear double whammy, prepare for another bunch of Brooklyn-based avant-garders to coast into the mainstream. For where Yeasayer's underrated 2007 debut was all slippery psychedelic jams, here they channel their creative energies in a poppier, electronic direction. The off-kilter percussive clatter of yore comes allied to pulsing tunes, and Tears for Fears-esque synth-soul effortlessly coalesces with calypso, techno and funk.