Yeasayer is set to drop a brand new album in February, but they’ve advanced a terrific teaser of a single with ‘Ambling Alp’, a release that has all the experimental joy of their debut album All Hour Cymbals yet showcases an exciting new feel and bold style of attack.

A stand up and fight anthem about the black American boxer Joe Louis battling Max Schmeling (an unwilling Nazi darling) and Primo Carnera (alias the ‘Ambling Alp’), the song has an energetic Ali shuffle and rousing vocals that get you worked up and ready for a scrap. The Memory Tapes and DJ Rupture remixes included with the single actually manage to amp up the dance and brawl of an already outstanding track.

If Yeasayer’s forthcoming LP Odd Blood is all the quality of this superb, unexpected release, we’re in for a stunning sophomore album from one of Brooklyn’s best bands.

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