Yay Yay Yay!

Shot informed me of the beautiful leakage of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs upcoming album, Show Your Bones. Although some argue, the lead single "Gold Lion" sounds too much like Tegan and Sara and not enough like the madwoman Karen O should be, I had already fallen in deep like weeks ago.

SYB is certainly a departure from the older, louder, more chaotic Fever To Tell. If you're looking for comparisions, there are many to pick: "Honeybear" reminds me of The Sounds, "Sweets" sounds like a song Tegan (of T&S) would write, and "Let Me Know" (from the "Gold Lion" EP) sounds like something taken from Aimee Mann's I'm With Stupid days. Yes, SYB is more accessible, but it's helluva lot of fun. There are plenty of other people, far more articulate and knowledgable than me to write about the band and the music. I'd rather spend the rest of my night dancing in my apartment to this here record.

I suggest you do the same. Download Show Your Bones at Berry's blog and buy the album when it comes out later this month.

If you just want a taste, here are a couple of my initial favourites:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs's "Cheated Hearts"
Yeah Yeah Yeahs's "Phenomena"

Comments

[Kevin Chiu]

These songs sound like a looping beat track and someone straining into the mic. It's almost like stand-up poetry, but with a beat.