For two years now, there has been a Karen O shaped hole in most people’s hearts. Well fear not followers of the Church of ‘O’, Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back with 3rd album ‘It’s Blitz!’. Thank fuck for that.
‘Zero’ opens proceedings, and reeks of danceability. The thrashing round your room doesn’t stop there though. No sooner have you finished readjusting whatever pictures adorn your wall than you are greeted with ‘Heads Will Roll’.
“Off with heads” states O with the air of a sexy medieval monarch, returning to behead any potential pretenders to her thrown.
‘It’s Blitz!’ slows down a bit after this, thank God. ‘Skeletons’ is a nice little number. Once it gets going, the song has a Celtic bagpipe feel to it, a bit like a Braveheart montage only without the bigoted Australian midget in a skirt, and no shit blue face paint.
‘Dull Life’ is the stand-out song on the album though. The intro is very MGMT. The track goes from strength to strength, with O’s presence kicking down doors.
It stands with ‘Maps’ and ‘Date With The Night’ as one of their great songs. In years to come ‘Dull Life’ will be the ground zero for a pandemic wave of sweaty clubbers who set foot on the dance-floor with the sole intention of kicking up a fuss.
Things are rounded off with ‘Little Shadow’, demonstrating the bands eye for a slower song. It’s a good way to bring things to a close, and feels like a nice warm hug. It never gets too sloppy though; this lot are far too slick to be sloppy.
The album is tinted with the current 80’s fad, although they never quite venture into that genre, keeping it strictly Yeah Yeah Yeahs. It has a fresh, experimental sound to it but O and them never lose sight of that which made us smitten in the first place. A truly great album.
4 ½ out of 5
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