It's Blitz!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

With the Yeah Yeah Yeahs album seemingly dominating Poptimist listening (if the last FM stats are anything to go by) shouldn't we have a chat about it?

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love the album - my favourite YYYs tracks are still the early punky kick-ass RARRR ones, 'Date With The Night' and 'Bang' specifically, but I don't think that's what I want from them any more - I'm really impressed that they made such an effortless transition to making expansive, country-tinged, new wavey music - they're capable of real beauty and majesty, which I'd never have predicted from the debut, and they haven't lost that propulsive quality they've always had, just recast it in a different setting...plus, Karen O is such an incredible frontwoman.

Favourites on the new one are prob 'Heads Will Roll', 'Dull Life' and 'Dragon Queen' - one really impressive thing is how lots of the songs end up in completely different places to where they started, but the transitions are so smooth that the overall aesthetic is never disrupted. Still gathering my thoughts about it really, there's a lot to talk about wrt how the band are evolving, but it's easy to just bask in how gorgeous it sounds.

On ILM, I was interested that a lot of the people on the YYYs thread were all R&B thread regulars. Off out for a while now, will be interested to see what people say...have you heard the album Tom? (Indeed do you like them already?)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, love the record, my favourite of 09 so far (not heard The-Dream yet though). And I didn't like them already - I didn't DISLIKE them, they just hadn't made any impression on me.

You're right about the transitions!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah there was a brief period where this was my easy favourite of 09 - and then I heard The-Dream! Still, this is way up there.

(Thought Fever To Tell was excellent, 4 stars easily; thought Show Your Bones was patchy but its best songs - 'Turn Into', 'Way Out' - were AMAZING, so three stars, but will probably go back to it in the wake of It's Blitz.)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Not being up on the young person's female fronted indie music this reminded me a lot of my favourite Siouxsie And The Banshees 'era' - the really luxurious but spooky early 80s stuff.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to get into Siouxsie for about a decade now - what do u recommend?

(btw you were right about twitter :( )

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Go for the first half dozen tracks on "Twice Upon A Time", see how you like those, then investigate the albums.