Recorded on tour, on an iPad, this low-key album (streaming for free on the band's website) is the sound of Damon Albarn blowing trees and tweaking apps as the American outback rolls by his bus window. Featuring songs like "Shy-Town" and "Seattle Yodel," it's a wistfully spaced-out, subtly cheeky spin on the road-trip epic: Easy Rider via Tron. Albarn isn't trying to say much, but The Fall is pretty consistent, from the country-radio sampling dub of "The Parish of Space Dust" to the Rust Belt planet-rock of "Detroit." The capper is "Bobby in Phoenix," an interstellar-blues sermon from soul great Bobby Womack: Delta guitars and sad, sweet blips and beeps demonstrate that iPads can have feelings too.

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“Ambling Alp”

The "Ambling Alp" was the nickname of the six-and-a-half-foot-tall Primo Carnera. Though the song is named after the Italian-born 1930s heavyweight champion, Yeasayer are actually paying tribute to boxing legend Joe Louis with this first-person psychedelic dance-rock tune. “I was always interested in writing a song that had boxing mythology in it,” Yeasayer’s Chris Keating said. “It’s pretty fascinating: There were so many amazing characters, and it was so closely entwined with 20th century history.” Yeaseyer also invokes German champ Max Schmeling and hints at the historical significance placed on the historic bouts between the Nazi-era boxer and the African-American Louis.