Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
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Free Music Review: pretty good&has alot of energy
Hit: 3 Stars
i saw this band's video about a couple months back&was really feeling there energy&vibe&so i decided to give it a full listen.way out&warrior are the cuts. i dig the Drums on this album. the Keyboards&Guitar are cool here as well.i like the Quirky vibe of this album.the lyrics i can take or leave&certain vocals,but this album has alot of energy&is catchy.Free Music Review: Bones.EVERYWHERE.
Hit: 4 Stars
My first sample from this new album disappointed me a great deal.As a maniacal fan of everything that comes with the uniqueness of the YYY's original sound,the thinned out double-vocals(very Avril-esque),the spilled-out meandering sound,and overall flatness of Gold Lion quite convinced me that the YYY's were officially Over.Then I thought that those are my exact initial thoughts about every follow-up album I've ever listened to:'the uniqueness has been waxed over for a more generic and consistent sound'.Comparisons with the first album never get you anywhere.So let me tell you,this album will leach into you like nothing else.Give certain songs mulitple listens,consider the lyrics and the vastness of mood that's been decidedly introduced into this poignant (i should be beaten for using that word,shouldn't i?),awesome album and you'll again fall in love with the YYY's bravery.The use of computerization on some tracks here have not in any way subverted the YYY's genre,it is still very purely rock.Or,it still sounds that way.
Well,my only recommendation here is that if you're a big fan of the YYY's (my theory is it'll take a lot of attachment to understand what they're doing here better),however excited or skeptical,find a large-ish sampling of mp3's (shouldn't be hard,they're everywhere) and do some thinking.My suggestions are:Modern Things,Mysteries,Dudley, and I'm thoroughly convinced that Cheated Hearts is likely the most beautiful song the YYY's or anyone really could ever have written.It makes my head hurt,it is so amazing and simple.Check it out,it's a good album,and even if you don't like all the songs,you're completely bound to love at least a few as the genre of the separate song themselves is surprisingly (in a great way) varied.It may seem,at first impression,rather anemic and overly melodic,but that could not be farther from any kind of truth.Some songs are very vocals/lyric oriented,others are still deranged and guitar-driven.It really is more deep and vast and really quite beautiful.
Free Music Review: A Little Let Down
Hit: 3 Stars
In light of Fever to Tell this album feels pretty subdued. Interesting for sure, and I suspect it will grow on me with time, but there is a little void of expectation that was waiting to be filled with more of Karen O's vocal antics. There's really nothing here with the force or energy we saw on the last album.
Maybe there is something to the album titles, and Fever to Tell really was a sort of psychotic manifesto while Show Your Bones is a bit more vulnerable and introspective.
(To be fair, I probably wouldn't use the term 'subdued' if the album had come from a different band, and I think a big part of it is the engineering--the vocals are turned way down and more emphasis is put on the other band members considerable instrumental talents.)
I have only listend to the CD a few times. Going off my early impressions, I'd say 'Way Out' and 'Warrior' are the best tracks. Maybe some of the others will work their way into my psyche after a bit more exposure. None too suprisingly, 'Gold Lion'-the track getting all the radio play, is the one song on the disc I really don't care for at all. For some reason, thats always the way of it. I would give it 3 and a half stars but really can't give it 4, so I'm rounding down to 3.
Free Music Review: Vibrantly surviving
Hit: 4 Stars
Listen, The best artists, and those with the most longevity, know how to do one thing well, and that is re-invent themselves. Now, I wouldn't so much say that The YYYs have "re-invented" themselves, but for lack of a better word, have matured a bit, and yet still kept at their core that childlike enthusiasm. Thus the title, "Show your bones", which Karen explained as a reference to the cartoon electrocution effect. You have to love it. Karen O was infectious then, and she is infectious now, just a little more refined, but no less lovely. A little wiser, but no less cool. I think this is a perfect follow up to "Fever to tell", since it is not just a remake. In its way, it is more spacious, deeper, and I think will prove to be the very move to make them stay in the game. Free Music Review: Yes Yes Yes
Hit: 5 Stars
When I bought Fever To Tell, I had to listen to it a few times before I really got what it was all about. Show Your Bones was the same way for me, but now that I've learned the lyrics, I am completely hooked on both. I saw these guys in concert last weekend, it was incredible live as well. I would definitely suggest this album for anyone who liked Fever To Tell, although I think they may have taken it down a notch or two with this album, perhaps in an effort to make their sound more mainstream? I don't know, but it's still awesome.
Best Songs: Way Out, Phenomena, and Cheated Hearts.