everything-goes double album. But nobody ever had the stylistic reach the Fab Four had here. Just try to name another album with a protest song, a vaudeville novelty, a nursery rhyme, a
38. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cool It Down Yeah Yeah Yeahs gave a few words with many meanings. Cool It Down combined the worlds of making you want to dance and crying in the bathroom. With a haunting effect to almost every song, it draws you in to discover what each song means ...
After a nine-year break, American indie-rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs returned this yearwith their fifth studio album, Cool It Down, and what a triumphant return it has been.Often impetuous and spontaneous on previous releases, Cool It Down,as the name suggests, has seen the band take the tim...
It is so fully formed and thoughtful that it feels like three or four lesser, noisier records should have preceded it. The xx didn’t need a gestation period, though xx is nuanced, quiet, and surprising enough that you might.[Pitchfork] 1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs It’s Blitz! So let any indi...
64. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down (Secretly Canadian) On their fifth album, Yeah Yeah Yeahs set their earlier spiky indie-punk to one side to produce an album that drifts through incisive observations on the modern world. The space allowed Karen O’s vocals to soar with a freshly found ...
OK, Boomer, it’s cool. You’ve probably never heard of The Futureheads, though. They were important for not being The Strokes or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Careening to fame with their self-titled debut in 2004, Futureheads returned followed a nine-year hiatus while their creative director exam...
38. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz Release date: March 31, 2009Photography: Urs FisherArt direction: Karen O, Seb Marling, Urs FisherLabel: Interscope Acclaimed conceptual artists, Urs Fisher, took the lead in art direction for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third album, It's Blitz!. The cover featu...
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ debut introduced the world outside New York to the beer-swilling frontwoman, who sounded like she’d eaten Pat Benatar for breakfast while rocking out to Siouxsie and the Banshees. The gorgeous ballad “Maps” was the surprise hit, but most of the album found O ...
35 YEAH YEAH YEAHS Cool It Down (SECRETLY CANADIAN) Another band breaking a lengthy hiatus (nine years between albums), but unlike The Mars Volta, Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs doubled down on their M.O. rather than reinventing it. Hence party tunes as well as love ballads came couch...
34. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to Tell It’s too bad “Maps” was so good. The single’s popularity made the transition to It’s Blitz!’s mannered East Village post-punk mimickry almost inevitable. Gone is the spontaneity of the band’s noisy, rough-around-the-edges debut album. The gu...