Yeasayer's Chris Keating, Anand Wilder and Ira Wolf Tuten at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival earlier this year. (Karl Walter / Getty Images)

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Yeasayer’s Anand Wilder wants you to dance. A lot.

The trio’s guitarist, keyboardist and occasional lead singer admitted that the songs that he thinks are supposed to get an audience into the groove occasionally don’t do their job.

“Honestly, I’m still constantly disappointed that the songs I think are danceable aren’t getting people to dance,” Wilder said in a telephone interview. “And I think it’s a deficiency on our part — whether we need more percussive elements, or people are expecting something else. It’s a constant challenge for me to analyze songs and make them so people are dancing their a**es off.”

The band’s studious approach to building a butt-shaking groove is a part of Yeasayer’s approach to music — this is a band whose young career has already seen a tendency to try and surprise its audience as it keeps them entertained. And it’s a band that loves to keep its live shows interesting — as South Florida fans will see when Yeasayer visits the Fillmore Miami Beach on Tuesday night.

That approach of keeping the audience constantly interested and guessing resulted in its most talked about change, when Yeasayer changed its sound between its first album, All Hour Cymbals — which had a more guitar-based, rock feel — to the upbeat yet experimental pop of the new album Odd Blood.

Wilder says that desire actually is nothing new in music. He, singer/keyboardist Chris Keating and bassist Ira Wolf Tuton see that in a lot of the musicians this Brooklyn-based trio cam up admiring.

“Everyone I’ve respected as a musician has been good at reinventing themselves,” Wilder said. “The Beatles are a great example of a band that reinvented itself constantly in a short amount of time in both sound and style. They were tastefully ripping off what was working as far as music was going, but anchoring it to really good songwriting.

“Or someone like David Bowie, who was constantly changing things up. Beck’s another one who does that, taking risks.”

Part of the change in sound may have resulted from a difference in how the two albums were made. Wilder said All Hour Cymbals was made prior to Yeasayer going on the road in earnest, so they had time to jam and work on songs together. Odd Blood, meanwhile, was pulled together when each band member laid down demos of songs they worked on between tour legs.

Take a song like “O.N.E.”, on which Wilder sings lead. The impossible-to-deny groove wasn’t there at first — Wilder had written the song with a much slower tempo at first.

“Chris had an idea to make it much more poppy and have a totally different rhythm,” Wilder said. “So he took the idea to the band about these new rhythms, and basically we covered my song in a completely different style. I wasn’t sold on it at first, because it was so undeniably poppy, but then we played it at Bonnaroo. The crowd responded like it was an old hit, and we thought, ‘Well, that’s the one, then.’”