Yeasayer

Yeasayer isn't worried about the apocalypse. In fact, it has a song about it called "Final Pass." Its advice is simple: When the end comes, dance.

"There's some article," reports Yeasayer guitarist Anand Wilder, "about how some ridiculous number of congressmen believe it's their duty to bring about the end of the world, to chop down all the trees, pollute the world because it doesn't matter – because they're going to be saved. We were kind of interested in that, kind of our take on that, so we wrote about a dance party."

Fair enough. Still, how does Wilder account for Yeasayer's overall sound, which itself seems to effectively conjure impending doom with its heavy reverb, eerie ambience and frequent use of cryptically apocalyptic themes? Many, if not most, of the songs on All Hour Cymbals, the act's debut album, can be interpreted as referring to the end times in one way or another – the song "2080" naming an expiration date for the human race, or "Germs" positing a possible method for our extermination. Wilder suggests this is more in the eye of the beholder than by intent, particularly in the case of the former track.

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Sun., April 20, 8 p.m., 2008