Our latest video treasure that we’ve decided to share with you is set to “Ambling Alp,” Yeasayer’s first single from their upcoming LP Odd Blood. This four minute long gem is not for the kiddies, and certainly NSFW, but for those of you at home who feel they can deal with a little nudity and whole lot of strangeness, we’ve got your daily dose of psychedelia right after the break.

It’s been more than two years since Yeasayer’s critically acclaimed debut album All Hour Cymbals, but we’ve finally gotten a taste of their latest work, and it was certainly worth the long wait. The Brooklyn-based experimentalists, besides having succeeded in creating an awesome piece of music, also deserve an award for the absolute strangest video we at IYS have ever seen. Featuring such oddities as mirror-faced boxers, band members rising out of strange yellow goo, heads being massaged by people with long nails until their faces rip open and spill pixilated rainbow blood, and much much more than can even be imagined, one is forced to ask himself “Who could possibly be responsible for such a video?”

The answer, is one (actually two), Radical Friend. Radical Friend are a directorial duo, who, combined and separate have worked with a few pretty impressive artists, including Of Montreal, Electric President, Black Moth Super Raibow, and now Yeasayer. The couple consists of Kirby McClure, and his partner Julia Grigorian, who had only first listened to Yeasayer a mere three weeks before Yeasayer called on them to do the video. The collaboration seemed to be a very natural one, "Early on they sent us a huge folder of images and textures they felt represented the mood of their new album, and our jaws dropped like 'Woah we're summoning similar spirits.' Because of the uncanny timing we were very stoked to be working with them," Kirby McClure said, when asked about this partnership.

This video is a wonderful melding of director and music and band, and if nothing else, it certainly conveys a message about the soon to be released Odd Blood, that couldn’t be better said if it came from every last mouth of every last bandmember of Yeasayer: “Naysayers beware.”