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"Love Me Girl"from the album Odd Blood2010iTunesThings start bleak on Odd Blood. The second album from worldly Brooklyn art rockers Yeasayer opens with "The Children," a post-apocalyptic mix of clanks, clacks, distorted vocals, manipulated instruments and dooming electronic effects. Yet in many ways, it's a three-minute fake-out. If the songs that follow don't get less experimental, the rest of the album isn't nearly as foreboding. "Ambling Alp," in fact, is downright inspirational, with life lessons Dr. Seuss could get behind. Sings Chris Keating, "Stick up yourself, son / Never mind what...