Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
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Free Music Review: Wordy Reviews, not this one
Hit: 4 Stars
Not as energetic as the "Fever to Tell". I miss that. "Way Out" and "Warrior" are two good tracks (imo), but tracks like "Phenomenon" make me want to puke. Overall, sounds too produced. Its not raw, sadly.Free Music Review: Yeah Yeah Cd
Hit: 5 Stars
I fell in love with the Yeahs Fever to Tell and I have to say I really enjoy Show your Bones the same if not more. Show your bones is on my top cds of 2006.Free Music Review: A very different side of YYYs
Hit: 4 Stars
It's clear right away that "Show Your Bones" is a much more subdued album than "Fever to Tell," with melody at the forefront and very little of the screaming and thrashing that powered Yeah Yeah Yeahs' debut. That's all well and good. There are a lot of excellent songs here ("Gold Lion," "Way Out," "Cheated Hearts," "The Sweets") that would not have been possible without the band breaking out of their former mold.
The news isn't all good though. Some of these songs would have been more palatable at 1:45 than at four minutes. Also, the more polished production, while well-suited to a song like "Gold Lion," tends to dull the impact of the more rocking songs like "Phenomena." In fact, the guitars seem strangely muted throughout the whole album. I don't know if it was an intentional production choice or not, but the guitar parts just never sound as bold and immediate as they should, leaving the drums and vocals to drive the songs instead.
Overall, "Show Your Bones" is an artistic success, but a little more of the rawness and swagger of "Fever to Tell" would have made it even better.
Free Music Review: weirdly bland
Hit: 3 Stars
What happened to the shrill, shrieking, full-body freakout of "Fever to Tell"? Musically, "Show Your Bones" is more varied and sophisticated than its predecessor--which isn't necessarily a good thing--and lyrically, Karen O. has too often traded in the come-ons, taunts, and dirty talk for vaguely New-Age navel-gazing. The album titles tell the whole story: "Fever to Tell" confessed how her body burned, while "Show Your Bones" sounds like it was written by a rock star trying to peel back the layers of her own persona. Problem is, the funnest thing about the YYYs *is* that persona. Pare it to the bones, and, well, there's not much left but the band's sheer technical competence--and there are a lot of technically competent bands out there.
The album begins inauspiciously, with an off-the-rack drum & acoustic guitar intro, and Karen O. singing:
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is
Take our hands out of control
Take our hands out of control
Um, can this really be happening? Is Karen O. telling us to place our faith in a gold lion? Gimme a break. This is right out of Van Morrison, circa 1974. (Not to mention C.S. Lewis, circa 1950.) The song does turn into a recognizable Yeah Yeah Yeahs song within a few bars, but phew, getting there is rough. The rest of the album returns to form somewhat, but it never quite captures the focus of "Fever to Tell." The fun thing about that record was that you could tell that the band's amps went to 11. On "Show Your Bones," it sounds like they got freaked out by the distortion and turned them down to about six.
I didn't mind that there's nothing as pretty (or radio-friendly) as "Maps" on this record. That song always sounded to me like it didn't quite fit into the rest of record anyway, though I'm glad it was there. But really, it didn't sound like it fit with the band either. What I'm frustrated about is that there's nothing building on "Pin" or "Tick," two of the weaker songs on "Fever" (which is to say, two of the least excellent), but which focused squarely on the lusts and, yeah, fevers of the body. Karen O. seems to write best about that, and I wish she would've kept at it.
Free Music Review: A classic sound, with a voice to fall in love with
Hit: 5 Stars
While their sound is wholly original, it seems the best and most fitting way to describe Show Your Bones and the feeling of this amazing band in general is to compare them with other established artists.
First, If people don't immediately fall under the spell of Karen O's haunting screaming melody, then there's no justice. From the moment I first heard Fever To Tell, I knew The Yeah Yeah Yeah's fronted by Gothic-Punk Goddess Karen O,had the potential to be in the same categories as other rock legends. From the wailing screams of a Janis Joplin, to the rocking sounds of Siouxsie Sioux, to the quiet melodic more obscure bands like The Primitives, The sound heard in Show Your bones undulates throughout a wide variety of genres, sounds and feels, with an over all feeling of something reminescent of The Kinks. The only thing missing may be some guitar smashing. But that might be in their live shows. Spectacular, must have album. 5 Stars just isnt enough to tout the praises of this album and this band in general.