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Post by laguy03 on Feb 24, 2009 16:42:04 GMT -5
The first single is the track "Zero".
Release date: April 14th, 2009
The album just leaked. I wonder if the early leak will force them to go and record new tracks or if they are just going to stick with the April release date.
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Feb 24, 2009 18:40:19 GMT -5
I can't believe it leaked this early. That's ridiculous. It reminds me of when I got Aaliyah's last studio album something like 2 months before it came out.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Mar 1, 2009 22:18:05 GMT -5
Holy crap at this album leaking so early.
On a positive note, this is easily their best album.
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Mar 2, 2009 1:52:34 GMT -5
I have only heard Zero but based on that song alone, I am extremely excited. I also gotta say that YYYs make a definite case for the benefits of cleaning up a band's sound and making them more mainstream. The poppier they seem to get, the better they seem to get.
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Post by Callmeatomic on Mar 2, 2009 18:07:49 GMT -5
It's amazing.
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Mar 3, 2009 12:47:47 GMT -5
I think this album got pushed up. I just went to Newbury Comics and they say it's coming out March 17. Would make sense...
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Post by laguy03 on Mar 4, 2009 3:34:00 GMT -5
The band posted a Myspace bulletin today:
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Mar 4, 2009 23:00:18 GMT -5
Ugh. So not in stores til March 31, eh. I bet Newbury Comics will still sell it when they said they will. They are notorious for breaching dates that way.
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Post by CammyCan on Mar 7, 2009 10:51:59 GMT -5
Love the album, especially "Heads Will Roll" and "Hysteric".
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Post by vinyl on Mar 8, 2009 12:44:35 GMT -5
'Runaway' wins at life.
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Post by Ling-Ling on Mar 8, 2009 12:51:14 GMT -5
"Dragon Queen" is soooooo hot. JAM!
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Mar 9, 2009 19:01:35 GMT -5
After eating a couple brownies and smoking and hanging out with my friends, I played this album in parts on their MYSPACE. I think I jizzed in my pants...a lot. I don't know why this new direction surprised me but it did and boy, does it work for them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2009 10:06:39 GMT -5
I love Zero and Heads Will Roll, but the rest is doing much for me. Karen's voice sounds great though.
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Mar 10, 2009 18:34:48 GMT -5
T-Hard! Keep listening. Let it sink in!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2009 17:13:42 GMT -5
T-Hard! Keep listening. Let it sink in! Well, I do like it, but those are the only songs I can recall after listening to the whole thing about eight times.
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Post by Lowe on Mar 13, 2009 12:12:16 GMT -5
I would REALLY love to have this album somebody... wink wink
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Post by surprise on Mar 14, 2009 23:03:48 GMT -5
Soft Shock is the shit! and the acoustic versions is GORGEOUS!
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Post by Lowe on Mar 16, 2009 19:39:04 GMT -5
breathtaking album... finally got it
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Post by GRRR on Mar 17, 2009 0:46:05 GMT -5
Runaway and Soft Shock are the best songs EVER!! YYY's forever!
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Mar 17, 2009 12:14:29 GMT -5
They need to push this s**t up even further. I don't pay for files so I have to wait til the 31st to buy this. UGH. It needs to be out TODAY.
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Post by Roman Candle on Mar 17, 2009 16:20:48 GMT -5
Hits has them debuting at 13,000 for a digital only release...not bad
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2009 14:56:48 GMT -5
I listened to this high, with headphones, Friday night and wow it sounded great. The nuances in the production are incredibly exciting, especially with the aid of the green. And Karen is such a powerhouse vocalist. Today Pitchfork gave Blitz! an 8.1, although I swear I saw a middling review from them a few weeks ago. Imagination acting up again, I guess. The cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' debut LP, 2003's Fever to Tell, set an early-decade benchmark for sheer ugliness, a deliberately heinous splatter of webbed blood, stabbed snakes, and flaming heads. The music was also confrontational, with lead singer Karen O following in the footsteps of countless riot grrls and righteous rock queens in crafting a persona of raw defiance and sexual menace.
Fast-forward six years, and a glance at the instantly iconic cover of the band's third full-length, It's Blitz!, tells you all you need to know about how far the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have come, from Fever to Tell through the middle-ground growing pains of 2006's Show Your Bones and up to today. A clean, simple image of a woman's hand bursting an egg-- it's no less powerful an indication of feminine strength and defiance than Fever's abrasive scrawl, yet it's miles and miles more subversive. It's also a fitting symbol for its music, taking familiar shapes and tools and recombining them in ways that are bracing and unexpected.
It's Blitz! is constructed from parts that by themselves aren't extraordinary-- in fact, many of them are quite banal, like the generic Franz-Bloc-Killers modern rock riff that propels "Dull Life" or the doomy one that drives "Shame and Fortune", sounding ripped straight off a late-period Smashing Pumpkins record. Much has been made of the album's heavy reliance on rock's eternal bugaboo, the synth, but often the synths are doing rock things rather than dance things, like on the buzzing, road-burning opener "Zero". Only two songs, "Heads Will Roll" and "Dragon Queen", deliver real disco backbeats.
With these unremarkable tools, however, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs still create great, compelling pop-rock, largely because of the way the songs themselves are organized, with conventional verse-chorus structures repeatedly eschewed in favor of detours, miniature grooves, and lengthy asides that produce the sensation of a band and a singer impulsively following their own emotional whims. Take the lovely, insinuating "Soft Shock", for instance-- it starts with tinkly keyboards and an Far East-sounding melody that builds to a refrain utilizing the words in the song's title, but it isn't the song's emotional climax, which is hidden until later, when Karen worriedly intones "what's the time, what's the day, gonna leave me?" Even more compositionally jarring are the slow, stretched-out set showcases "Skeletons" and "Runaway", the former taking a blippy little electro-ballad and then plopping martial drums and a melody that sounds taken from some Scottish battle hymn smack dab in the middle. In keeping with the arty tendencies that have blossomed within the band from the beginning, these songs often feel portioned out into passages or movements as opposed to flowing organically throughout.
With such an absence of easy signposts, we're especially apt to follow Karen wherever she goes, since she's our only hope for a guide. Yet she refuses to be a locus of explanation or control, keeping her lyrics generally vague and frequently losing herself in bursts of incomprehensible excitement or fervor. These fits and embellishments account for most of the best moments on the album-- the way she breathlessly pants "crying, crying, crying" on "Zero", or giddily draws out the last syllable of the line "a hundred years old" on "Dull Life", or how "Heads Will Roll" and "Dragon Queen" periodically dissipate into an inchoate softness.
The ninth song on Fever to Tell was "Maps", a fleeting glimpse of vulnerability on an album of gleeful scorn. On It's Blitz! that slot is occupied by "Hysteric", a song every bit as emotionally naked and immediately indelible as "Maps". Here though, it represents an island of piercing clarity and happy convention in a sea of bewilderment, impulse, and ecstasy.
— Joshua Love, March 26, 2009
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12855-its-blitz/ And this is something I'll have to check out. Animal Collective Remix Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Currently checking that off the "Dream Headlines" list. If you were still on the fence about plunking down legal tender for the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, this may sway you: Insound is currently offering a pre-order of It's Blitz! with a free 7" featuring first single "Zero" and "Zero" (Animal Collective Remix). (Not to be confused with that clusterf**k "Y-Control"/"My Girls" mashup farting up the internet.) This is a limited edition-type deal, so no lollygagging. (Via MBV.)
The digital version of It's Blitz! is out now digitally on Interscope, with physical release due March 31.
pitchfork.com/news/34884-animal-collective-remix-yeah-yeah-yeahs/
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Post by Minimalism on Mar 26, 2009 22:05:18 GMT -5
I've only heard "Zero" and "Heads Will Roll" so far. Sounds promising. I'll check out the rest for sure.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Mar 31, 2009 14:46:05 GMT -5
Out today!
Best Buy $9.99 (DE $13.99)
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Mar 31, 2009 18:47:32 GMT -5
I listened to this high, with headphones, Friday night and wow it sounded great. The nuances in the production are incredibly exciting, especially with the aid of the green. And Karen is such a powerhouse vocalist. Today Pitchfork gave Blitz! an 8.1, although I swear I saw a middling review from them a few weeks ago. Imagination acting up again, I guess. The cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' debut LP, 2003's Fever to Tell, set an early-decade benchmark for sheer ugliness, a deliberately heinous splatter of webbed blood, stabbed snakes, and flaming heads. The music was also confrontational, with lead singer Karen O following in the footsteps of countless riot grrls and righteous rock queens in crafting a persona of raw defiance and sexual menace.
Fast-forward six years, and a glance at the instantly iconic cover of the band's third full-length, It's Blitz!, tells you all you need to know about how far the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have come, from Fever to Tell through the middle-ground growing pains of 2006's Show Your Bones and up to today. A clean, simple image of a woman's hand bursting an egg-- it's no less powerful an indication of feminine strength and defiance than Fever's abrasive scrawl, yet it's miles and miles more subversive. It's also a fitting symbol for its music, taking familiar shapes and tools and recombining them in ways that are bracing and unexpected.
It's Blitz! is constructed from parts that by themselves aren't extraordinary-- in fact, many of them are quite banal, like the generic Franz-Bloc-Killers modern rock riff that propels "Dull Life" or the doomy one that drives "Shame and Fortune", sounding ripped straight off a late-period Smashing Pumpkins record. Much has been made of the album's heavy reliance on rock's eternal bugaboo, the synth, but often the synths are doing rock things rather than dance things, like on the buzzing, road-burning opener "Zero". Only two songs, "Heads Will Roll" and "Dragon Queen", deliver real disco backbeats.
With these unremarkable tools, however, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs still create great, compelling pop-rock, largely because of the way the songs themselves are organized, with conventional verse-chorus structures repeatedly eschewed in favor of detours, miniature grooves, and lengthy asides that produce the sensation of a band and a singer impulsively following their own emotional whims. Take the lovely, insinuating "Soft Shock", for instance-- it starts with tinkly keyboards and an Far East-sounding melody that builds to a refrain utilizing the words in the song's title, but it isn't the song's emotional climax, which is hidden until later, when Karen worriedly intones "what's the time, what's the day, gonna leave me?" Even more compositionally jarring are the slow, stretched-out set showcases "Skeletons" and "Runaway", the former taking a blippy little electro-ballad and then plopping martial drums and a melody that sounds taken from some Scottish battle hymn smack dab in the middle. In keeping with the arty tendencies that have blossomed within the band from the beginning, these songs often feel portioned out into passages or movements as opposed to flowing organically throughout.
With such an absence of easy signposts, we're especially apt to follow Karen wherever she goes, since she's our only hope for a guide. Yet she refuses to be a locus of explanation or control, keeping her lyrics generally vague and frequently losing herself in bursts of incomprehensible excitement or fervor. These fits and embellishments account for most of the best moments on the album-- the way she breathlessly pants "crying, crying, crying" on "Zero", or giddily draws out the last syllable of the line "a hundred years old" on "Dull Life", or how "Heads Will Roll" and "Dragon Queen" periodically dissipate into an inchoate softness.
The ninth song on Fever to Tell was "Maps", a fleeting glimpse of vulnerability on an album of gleeful scorn. On It's Blitz! that slot is occupied by "Hysteric", a song every bit as emotionally naked and immediately indelible as "Maps". Here though, it represents an island of piercing clarity and happy convention in a sea of bewilderment, impulse, and ecstasy.
— Joshua Love, March 26, 2009
pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12855-its-blitz/ And this is something I'll have to check out. Animal Collective Remix Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Currently checking that off the "Dream Headlines" list. If you were still on the fence about plunking down legal tender for the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, this may sway you: Insound is currently offering a pre-order of It's Blitz! with a free 7" featuring first single "Zero" and "Zero" (Animal Collective Remix). (Not to be confused with that clusterf**k "Y-Control"/"My Girls" mashup farting up the internet.) This is a limited edition-type deal, so no lollygagging. (Via MBV.)
The digital version of It's Blitz! is out now digitally on Interscope, with physical release due March 31.
pitchfork.com/news/34884-animal-collective-remix-yeah-yeah-yeahs/ Listening to it high now. Dragon Queen is on now. WTF?! This CD is making me blow 5 wads a minute, seriously. Talk about musical growth and creativity. This band is not to be f'd with and they clearly mean business. It's a starred album on Metacritic, as it has a score of 82!
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Mar 31, 2009 18:48:59 GMT -5
Come on Gossip Girl, use "Hysteric"!
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Apr 2, 2009 18:51:25 GMT -5
This is easily album of the year material. Stunning!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2009 12:12:31 GMT -5
This album has officially taken its place as my third favorite of the year so far, following Merriweather Post Pavilion and Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix.
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Post by Minimalism on Apr 6, 2009 20:50:06 GMT -5
^ Great choices. As for this album, great as it is, I think I still prefer "Show Your Bones". But of course, that may change over time.
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Post by Hurricane Lee on Apr 6, 2009 21:30:24 GMT -5
I thought they couldn't improve upon SYB and they have, so give it time. Never heard of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix but have grown to LOVE the new AC. It's close to my heart now and I have gotten random converts who don't even like that kind of music. They are so drawn to it!
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