Yeah Yeah Yeah!

I don't know about you, but I'm pretty excited for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new release, Show Your Bones. I mean, I liked Fever To Tell. Date With The Night, No No No, Y Control, Maps, Modern Romance it was a fun record. I can't tell you how often I've heard Maps and Y Control. It was a bombastic record. Karen O jumping around, shrieking, howling, moaning, yelping, it was crazy. It wasn't a low key record to say the least. But from the Gold Lion EP and the tracks leaked from the album, it looks like we'll be seeing less of the Karen O persona and more of Karen Orzoleck. Less of the beer-spraying, spaztic, howling stage persona, and more of the girl who wrote Modern Romance. The first track that may or may not be on the album; Gold Lion. Despite the embarassing-sounding percussion (seriously, was I the only one who sang along only replacing the lyrics with "We will, we will, rock you"?) Once Karen starts singing, you don't really care about the percussion, and it ends up being a great track, though more mellow than most of their earlier efforts. (Note: If links don't work, I will fix them soon. They should work though, right-click and save.)



The next song, Let Me Know, was the bonus track from the Gold Lion EP, and I really like it. It's got a very different vibe to it from most Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs, like it should be played in somebody's living room for a handful of friends and family instead of on a stage for hundreds of screaming fans. Not very new or different or creative, but cute.



Finally, the newest song that's been leaked from their album, Dudly. I swear, the opening strings were pulled off an album my dad put out a few years ago. Either that or they just sound freakishly similar. (That latter is the more likely option in case you couldn't tell.) The percussin is straight out of Rebellion (Lies) by the Aracde Fire. I'm not sure if this liberal borrowing makes the song better or worse, but I like the sound. Bits of it borrow liberally from Arcade Fire songs, but it's a pretty good song on it's own right.



I'm hoping their new album shows a bit more variety and variation and creativity than these tracks did, but you can't deny that these are good listens. Songs don't have to be huge and innovating to be great listens, and that's what these songs are.