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?

Comments

[martinv.livejournal.com]

I think it's great. Absolutely great. And the last time I got properly excited about the YYYs was in about 2002. I really don't have anything more constructive to add, though.

[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?)

[koganbot]

Karen O. sometimes seems like a transvestite doing a comic impersonation of PJ Harvey. I think I mean that as a compliment. But yes, I like this album. My top three are "Heads Will Roll," "Dull Life," and "Runaway."

Had a truncated discussion about it here, though ended up talking more about Lovefoxxx, whom I realize I'm in love with (connection betw. Karen and Lovefoxxx is their sense of wonder; Lovefoxxx makes her wonder more articulate, however).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've listened to a YYY song since 2003 - is there ONE song off this album that is likely to convince me of its awesomeness?

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

I was unaware that they were still going. I might give it a listen.

Zero

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I like it! Initial lazy comparison thought: it's like if Blondie were being produced by Kleerup. Except without Debbie Harry. Karen's voice sounds a lot smoother than it did on the first album (for which I am V GLAD - I got sick of the banshee thing rather quickly).