Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Is Is
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Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeah'sEdition: Music CD
Format: EP
CD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Music Label: Fontana Interscope
Product features:
- Rock
- Rockers To Shallow
- Down Boy
- Kiss Kiss
- Isis
- 10X10
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Free Music Review: Perfection
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm tempted to say it's a crime that these aren't the five most popular songs of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs career, but that's not quite right. Released a year after Show Your Bones, Is Is shows the same song craft of that album with the "rawer" sex and release songs of Fever To Tell. Its opening song "Rockers To Swallow" is absolutely the height of both, its title itself a sly capitulation of Karen O's sense of ferocity and sexuality, and the song itself is ragingly loud and vicious. It reminded me, on first listen, of Show Your Bones's hard-hitting "Fancy," but on its own it's much more, a snarling beast of commanding bad attitude. That's where the album expands on the DIY indie crankiness of Fever To Tell (and I love Fever To Tell) - it's the album in which Karen O is in full embrace of her outsize, mesmerizing bigger-than-life ferocity and showmanship. Even at 5 songs, it's impossible to miss how confident and muscular the sounds of Is Is are - "Isis" an intoxicating and tuneful maneater anthem, and "10 x 10" so melodically unnerving. But truly the YYY classic here is "Kiss Kiss," a commanding creation of Karen O's breathy, wild delivery. At first glance, she's never sounded more like Siouxsie Sioux, but there's no doubt Siouxsie and the Banshees didn't have a song like "Kiss Kiss" in them, by the time it reaches its command of "Everyone kiss me!," the demand is completely unnecessary - you couldn't possibly love the band and Karen O any more than you already do.
Is Is Poster
2007 EP from the New York Post-Post-Punk trio featuring five 'new' studio tracks! This EP was recorded in a whirlwind one day in New York and features songs written on the road while they toured Fever To Tell. Three of these blistering tracks previously appeared on their live DVD Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow but this is the first time any of them have been recorded in a studio. Five tracks: 'Rockers To Swallow', 'Down Boy', 'Kiss Kiss', 'Isis' and '10x10'. Dress Up.At a mere 17 minutes, Is Is packages Yeah Yeah Yeahs' decibel-heavy mood swings in an ideal serving size. Written primarily between the band's debut full-length, 2003's Fever to Tell, and the 2006 follow-up, Show Your Bones, the five songs here boast the best of YYY's pounding bravado, lyrical raunchiness, and?-yes?-sometime vulnerability. Like PJ Harvey fronting Liars ("Rockers to Swallow"), or the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde sitting in on a White Stripes session ("Isis"), singer Karen O moves from the sonic blitzkrieg of "Kiss Kiss" to the almost tender verses of "Down Boy" with elastic facility. Guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase remain the serviceable, occasionally inspired rhythm section they've always been, but as usual, Yeah Yeah Yeahs could be called "The Karen O Show," and no one would know the difference. Released at a stage in YYY's career when many young, ubiquitously hyped bands round the bend and head for obscurity, Is Is signals a drum-tight trio standing on the cusp of lasting stardom. --Jason Kirk
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