Song of the Week - Yeasayer, "2080"

From their album All Hour Cymbals, "2080" (right click song title for mp3) is a perfect antidote for the winter blues. It's bright, symphonic, and frenzied - like MagicEye 3D holographic art. In short, it's a "rhapsody"...

rhapsody |ˈrapsədē| noun 1 an effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling : rhapsodies of praise. • Music: a free instrumental composition in one extended movement, typically one that is emotional or exuberant in character. 2 (in ancient Greece) an epic poem, or part of it, of a suitable length for recitation at one time. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (sense 2) : via Latin from Greek rhapsōidia, from rhaptein ‘to stitch’ + ōidē ‘song, ode.’

Yeasayer will be opening for another shitty band, Man Man, in Toronto at Lee's Palace on April 14 and in San Francisco at Great American Music Hall on April 23. Check their myspace for more dates.