New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album and free MP3
Wed 18 Feb 2009
What, no guitars!?
On April 13 in the UK and April 14 in the US, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will release their third album, It’s Blitz!. With strictly no guitars, Nick Zinner’s trademark clunky and erratic axe is replaced by slushy synths and what sounds like syncopated drum machine beats. Where has the sound of the classically lauded Goliath of all power trios gone? Brian Chase’s effortless human beats and Nick’s towering, scratchy guitar have given way to mechanics. Overlaid with Karen O’s usual sultry and stuttery wail, it sounds like classic YYY’s dolled up for the new year, where synths reign and club nights ca$h in. The album art is also lacking in their usual creative hand-drawn mastery. While I’m not impressed by the new track Zero (free download below, or buy it on iTunes on February 24), there’s hope yet. Collaboraters on the album include Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe of TV On The Radio, Lily Allen’s all-star producer Greg Kurtsin and saxophone player Stuart Bogie from the wonderful afrobeat band Antibalas. And of course Dave Sitek produced it (with Nick Launay, who has produced Arcade Fire). Though Spin magazine seems to state that Kyp Malone is disappointingly only playing tambourine on one track. The ten-track album is said to be inspired by Giorgio Morodor, Joy Division and Donna Summer.
Posted by Sarah Gooding under New York
February 18th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
fuuuuuck
this is awesome
you kids are so legit
artrocker’s even stealin yo articles
February 19th, 2009 at 6:50 am
The new single is awesome. I like the change of pace that the band is taking. I’ve already read good reviews on this site called Everhype, so it’s clear that the album will likely be a hit.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:16 am
from what I’ve heard I’m infinitely more excited by this record than Show Your Bones and Is Is. So it’s not as rough around the edges, but it also sounds like they have more actual ’songs’. Pretty crazy not to have a inventive guitarist like Zinner wailing everywhere, but in the context of it I don’t really notice the lack of guitars… plus y’know half those leads would still sound like synths if Zinner played them on guitar.
February 25th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
update: The album is terrible, and there are heaps of guitars.
gutted.