Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Mosquito

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I'm no YYYs aficionado but this album sounds fine to me. Except the second track was really boring. Maybe it would have sounded fine elsewhere on the album, but not as the second track.

I dug a couple of the songs on the playback, but the best comment on this came from my gf: "I liked them better when they didn't have any money"

sooooo many quotes that nail why i think this record is a mess

karen o being a kanye hater until my big stupid fantasy turned her around ://////

also i think show your bones is only their third best album but i am not here for them disowning it like that

"way out" and "turn into" alone >>>>>>>> anything on mosquito

Yeah those are the two highlights along with Cheated Hearts which is my favourite song of theirs these days. Which album is your favourite overall?

Its Blitz is their best composition-wise imho but i hate the production on it. Sounds innapropriate for them.

Which album is your favourite overall?

― Kitchen Person, Sunday, April 7, 2013 8:53 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's blitz >> fever to tell >>> show your bones = yeah yeah yeahs ep >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> mosquito

my fav YYYs tracks are pretty evenly spread though, i guess a POX would be

bang
heads will roll
date with the night
dull life
turn into
dragon queen
way out
runaway
man
our time

Until this record they got better with each release imo.

"turn into" is so sublime

yeah show your bones in general is really underrated

isn't "Phenomenon" used in a car commercial or something?

Until this record they got better with each release imo.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)

Yeah this is how I feel. Mosquito is right down at the bottom now.

4th song and this doesn't sound like a tragedy, you catastrophists!

Second listen and "Slave" is alright. Still feels like sketches in echo. "Area 52" is no "Art Star" like O compares in the youtube preview, definitely belongs more on the Garbage Pail Kids soundtrack.

So yeah, finally gave this a listen and I can see what people mean when they say it sounds like a bunch of demos... I definitely don't think it sounds as good as It's Blitz! does, and there's one or two songs here that seem to meander a little without doing much of anything on first listen. I'll certainly be giving it a few more listens before I decide whether I feel this is any good or not, but I don't think it's going to mean as much to me as their previous album did no matter how much or little it grows on me.

listening to official version

it really does sound like it was recorded in a drainpipe :(

Halfway through and I'm liking this so far. I'm not sure I really want to hear a whole album of this murky echo chamber stuff, but it's an interesting direction for them.

from the cover to the dr octagon guest spot, this album is extremely... 90s

It's so unbelievably late 90s it sounds like the band were wearing combat trousers when they recorded it.

'Area 51' is pretty great actually.

it's blitz was already hella 90s

Meh, I've given this album another go this morning and I just really couldn't be bothered with it. Found myself wanting to turn it off and listen to 'Dragon Queen' instead.

huh i wasn't expecting a peaking lights record

this isn't that bad but the cover is so disgusting i will never buy a physical copy

isn't "Phenomenon" used in a car commercial or something?

Cadillac baby!

I am bummed everyone is hating on this, now I don't even want to hear it. Granted the cover was off-putting enough, and I didn't really like Sacrilege so... hopes dashed I guess

it's not bad so far, just kind of a snooze. "slave" is good.

Yeah I am bummed too. I just got it this morning. Stop hating people! You're ruining it for me and I haven't even listened to it yet. :(

although if you're used to dull lo-fi white people dub then you might find something to salvage

I don't think it's terrible by any means. Just, perhaps, a little scatterbrained.

I've already resigned myself to the fact that I'm not going to like it nearly as much as their other stuff but it still makes me very very sad. They better not just play this next month. I mean I'm sure they won't but yeah.

a lot of this stuff could probably be complicated and rescued live

How many albums was their Interscope contract signed for? Maybe they're just looking for an easy exit.

'Sacrilege' is quite possibly the best thing on here!

god Always is amazing!

Reviews of this album have actually been fairly kind (77 on Metacritic, somehow), but I feel like critics are just giving it the benefit of the doubt.

i dunno folks, this is sounding pretty neat to me

skipped to the last three tracks everyone is talking about so basically this album is amazing to me so far!

"slave" and "despair" are my cuts off of this. definitely disappointing after it's blitz :(

the rap song is just...sigh

A positive review: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/04/yeah-yeah-yeahs-mosquito.html

how come nobody's said, with mosquitoes the yeah yeah yeahs have lost their BITE

this mosquito truly sucks

don't scratch this itch, for mosquito

it don't draw blood

About to see them in Ventura. A surprisingly young crowd here tonight.

Hoped they had its blitz on vinyl, but it's all mosquito here tonight. Worth $17? The enthusiasm for this record seems low itt.

This cover is awful. Would prbly buy if the cover was not incredibles baby in grasp of mosquito.

listening to this for the first time just now, so far it's pretty bad-ass (1.5 songs in)

i agree sufjan. the cover is so bad it is honestly hard to not have it unfavorably influence my experience of the album, which i actually like a lot, especially "sacrilege."

sacrilege - i like this! sounds relaxed and loose, inhabitable in a way they haven't since maybe forever. hazy production and gospel vocals set up expectations that this is gonna be an exile move: dark, rootsy, unpop. i'm okay with that. i mostly love it's blitz! and like some stuff prior, but have never been fully on board with the yeah yeah yeahs. even starting with fever to tell, i've had the sense of something overconsidered, overdesigned, sculpted to within an inch of its life. the songs have sounded not like cool places they stumbled into, but like "cool spaces" they sat down and decided to construct. this feels much more natural.

subway - like this, too. similar reasons. nice vibe, faraway, stoned and unfussed. would hang.

mosquito - awesome. hilarious, good energy, the kind of shit i wish they'd onto after the first couple EPs (dialing down the intensity but keeping the energy). no great shakes, but i love the percussion and the spacey breakdown.

under the earth - okay, you're all crazy, this album is fantastic. love the bassline, drumming, falsetto vocals, dub noises, those "aaahs" that crop up about three minutes in (!), lyrics, lidded sway. hasn't been a big, standout pop move on the album yet, but i'll take a welcoming expanse in trade. on the first pass, i'm digging this a good deal more than i was the new knife.

slave - damn. if this is underdeveloped, i'm glad they quit where they did. reminds me of the stones' disco period and bowie/moroder's "cat people". and the album as a whole maybe of sandinista!. i could listen to this shit for days. might not stick in my head afterwards, but i'd have a good time.

these paths - okay, now i get the "underdeveloped" charges. this does sound like dubbed-out filler. still like it, but the energy flags (if not the vibe). lol, i thought she was saying "pants" at first. gets kind of lovely towards the end, kind of corny too.

area 52 - goofy shit, maybe too much so for it's own good, maybe not. i get the album cover now. like this and "mosquito" are supposed to be the touchstones. enjoyable, but i wish the arrangement and production here were a little more spacious, leave some room to bang, like the first b-52's album.

i desist. this is weird, lazy and good. along with it's blitz! probably my favorite yyy's. i appreciate the vacation they seem to be taking from big, tough power moves. and it's nice hearing from doctor octagon again. the poignant uplift stretch at the end of the album seems to betray the "concept", and isn't as strong as the "runaway" / "hysteric" / "little shadow" clutch at the end of it's blitz!, but i dig it okay. "wedding song" is particularly nice.