Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!

that's possibly the least surprising post in the history of ilx.

I've only heard a couple of songs so far but I've really loved them. Am excited to hear the rest. YYY at the Kentish Town Forum sometime in 2004 still one of the best shows I've ever been to. Can't wait to see them again.

After some distance for a couple weeks, I've come back and decided (for myself, at least) that this album is purely wonderful. I regret it took so long.

i heard a song in the apt the other day, ryan was playing it. it was the kind of song that made me stop and listen, and ask who it was.

It was M83, right?

nooo! it was this album. i know M83 when i hear it.

Nice video. Shame about that first sentence in AOL's writeup, though:

Leave it to Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O to tell a story through visuals.

Leave it to Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O to convey emotional states through a sequence of notes

Leave it to Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O to string together words to form "sentences"

okay maybe I'm being a dick but that sentence, urgh :(

"hysteric" stans should by the acoustic version from itunes

buy

it has violins

I keep finding new things to love about this record. Today its the frankly preposterous amount of echo put on the drums in Little Shadow, so it sounds like fireworks going off.

i love the concept of the video but could they not have found someone who could actually draw figures which resemble the band even slightly

lost interest in these guys around the 2nd album which i thought was a bit meh like lex but am interested to hear this, what with everyone raving about it (also to see what sitek has done with it, seeing as i preferred his productions around the time when yyys first came out to now). and xpost, i think the guitarist is totally underrated too.

this record is so good. Really digging "Dragon Queen" mucho.

"hysteric" stans should by the acoustic version from itunes

― wow heaven is cool (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 11, 2009 3:06 AM (2 days ago)

damn when i get back home i am getting this

im listening to it backwards
i cant figure out down them all
i bought it from the russians
it was 1.83
i like it
its dry in the wet spots

Great album. A few slightly dull tracks in the middle, otherwise sheer brilliance. 'Zero' has been the single of the year so far.

YYYs will play SNL next week, apparently!

this album is still great, btw

dude the physical CD was released this past tuesday

bka lol the internet

I can't stop listening to "Zero". Single of the year so far for me too (maybe tied with Lily Allen's
"The Fear"). It sounds so sexy. You almost feel like Karen O is ripping off your clothes with her voice.

i think 'zero' is pretty much the worst song on the album. it's ok but feels a bit compromised.

I have found this LP on spotify so now I will be able to discover the truth about it.

That first track was actually OK, probably as good as most of their first LP.

alas, I have to switch it off now to do some work.

Great album ... definitely one of my faves of the year so far.

Haven't been able to enjoy a single nanosecond of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs since seeing Scott Crary's dubious No Wave documentary, "Kill Your Idols." Karen O seems entirely unable to express herself without bookending each slackjawed utterance with a stream of "like" and "y'know." Hugely disappointing.

Somewhere around the time Liars and Yeahs show up in that documentary, I had to turn it off. I love No Wave, but listening to those people blather about their innovations breaks the spell of the music, and then bringing in the Brooklyn contingent scaled it down even more.

Indeed. It was fun to see Branca and Gira and Lunch and Arto interviewed, but once those ridiculous dinks in A.R.E Weapons started talking, I wanted to throw a brick at the screen.

Dragon Queen is the only thing on this album I would change, it's a good song but it feels a bit flimsy compared to everything else here.

wow all kinds of reactions on this thread; glad most of them are positive in one way or another. i'm trying to decide if it's crazy to say that zero is the best rock single i've heard in years. also liking dragon queen a lot and seeing how much the rest of this sinks in.

Loving this album (despite disliking all of their previous stuff)

i'm trying to decide if it's crazy to say that zero is the best rock single i've heard in years.

I don't know - I mean, I really really love it. In fact, I can't stop listening to it.

I can't wait until they tour for this. SO EXCITED.

CHRIST! To make up for how good Phoenix was last week, SNL apparently let thier sound guy have this week off completely. YYYs sound like they're playing in soundproofed cave.

nah, they sounded like that on jools holland too - they just don't know how to make the song sound not thin live yet

come on hysteric plzzzzzz

wait did i miss the second song

OMGOMGOGMOMGOMGOMGOMOGMOGMGOMGMGOMG

MAPS?!!!!!

:))))))))

i want to watch that again

Well that sucked. Maps? No Hysteric? And does the sound guy hate guitars?

fu dude

they've played maps on so many tv shows, shoudl've played "hysteric" or "heads will roll" or at least "cheated hearts"

Fucking great record.

I've only heard the single. This is some talentlessly spineless shit. They should break up and vanish.

fu dude
Um, I love "Maps," dude. I just didn't feel a need for them to play it for the 257th time on TV, especially when they have a great new album out.