All Hour Cymbals is the debut studio album by Brooklyn-based experimental rock group Yeasayer. It was released by We Are Free on 23 October 2007, and 24 March 2008 in the UK. The album received positive reviews from publications and websites such as Entertainment Weekly, NME, Pitchfork Media, and Spin. The music review online magazine Pitchfork Media placed All Hour Cymbals' at number 197 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s Read more on Last.fm.

Odd Blood is the self-produced second studio album by American experimental rock band Yeasayer. Recorded in the state of New York during 2009, it was released on February 8, 2010 in Europe and a day later in North America, with Secretly Canadian as the primary label. odd blood received largely positive reviews from critics. Praise centered on its cohesive merging of genres, especially the pop-influenced rhythms. Backed by a new good-sized independent label, Secretly Canadian, and a bigger recording budget, Yeasayer started work on a second studio album in February 2009. According to a Rolling Stone article, Odd Blood was inspired by a trip to New Zealand, where Yeasayer experimented with LSD. On October 30, the band made a new track, Ambling Alp, available for free online streaming and confirmed the Odd Blood track list and release details for 2010. Although the record was slated for release on 9 Feb 10, it was leaked to the Internet on 11 Dec 09. Read more on Last.fm.