After a few albums, Yeasayer have grown out of the vaporous identity of being a "buzz band" and become the next thing: a just plain regular band. They've moved down to Brooklyn's Sunset Park, building a recording studio that allows them to stay fully immersed in the day-to-day process of making music, while also allowing them to live together. They've also expanded to new creative frontiers, as singer Anand Wilder explains. "The Grand Theft Auto guys really wanted us to make a song and they really liked it so they put it in the video game," he says. "You kill someone. I think you might have to betray him while our song plays."While placing their music in popular video games might get their name out there, the most important thing for Yeasayer was to reconcile their creative ambitions with their practical realities. "I think a turning point for us was when we kind of figured out what we needed to record and how we were going to record," Wilder says. "I know we did vocals in the bathroom, all four of us screaming into one mic. It was a long XOR cable going into the 4-track. A beer bottle fell into the sink as we were singing and went "PSHHH!" We couldn't take it out!"The band's other singer, Chris Keating, mentions a water-logged instrument, damaged in a flood, that was used all throughout the recording of the band's first album. "That was the only synth we had at the time," he says. But the need of having to react to such constraints might've helped them, as Wilder says. "I think we're trying to get back to that process, because that was a lot more fun, learning these new songs and working on arrangements in more of a live atmosphere. It allows us to have a rhythm that's a little more fluid and dynamic than if we were just going off something on the computer."That flexibility is what's helped Yeasayer grow. As Keating explains, "You can pick one part of this thing and mix it with one part of this thing, and that's what seems to me what the future is."