Track Listing

1. Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, David Andrew Sitek, Eric Biondo, Stuart Bogie, Dan Huron, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
2. Heads Will Roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, David Andrew Sitek, Dan Huron, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
3. Soft Shock - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, David Andrew Sitek, Dan Huron, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
4. Skeletons - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, David Andrew Sitek, Dan Huron, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
5. Dull Life - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, David Andrew Sitek, Dan Huron, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
6. Shame And Fortune - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, David Andrew Sitek, Dan Huron, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
7. Runaway - Nick Launay, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, David Andrew Sitek, Dan Huron, Jane Scarpantoni, Greg Kurstin, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
8. Dragon Queen - Nick Launay, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, David Andrew Sitek, Tunde Adebimpe, Stuart Bogie, Kyp Malone, Dan Huron, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
9. Hysteric - Nick Launay, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, David Andrew Sitek, Eric Biondo, Stuart Bogie, Dan Huron, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
10. Little Shadow - Nick Launay, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, David Andrew Sitek, Dan Huron, Imaad Wasif, Mark 'Spike' Stent, Matty Green
11. Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, Atom, Rudyard Lee Cullers, Gillian Rivers
12. Soft Shock - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, Atom, Rudyard Lee Cullers, Gillian Rivers
13. Little Shadow - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nick Launay, Atom, Rudyard Lee Cullers, Gillian Rivers
14. Skeletons - Nick Launay, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Atom, Rudyard Lee Cullers, Gillian Rivers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7888 in Music
• Released on: 2009-04-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Deluxe Edition
• Running time: 55 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Already acclaimed as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs first real foray into dance music, It’s Blitz!, clad in a strangely unappealing sleeve is much more than a set of floor-friendly bangers. Despite their New York fashion connections, the Yeahs have always presented a certain emotional vulnerability alongside their more anthemic moments, Karen O’s voice as wistful as Debbie Harry’s back in the day . It’s Blitz is no exception, offering more phone-wavers such as the bleak closer "Little Shadow" and the stark heartbreaker "Skeletons", the nearest they come here to matching their classic single "Maps". The roaring opener "Zero" and mutated house anthem "Heads Will Roll" cover the dance side while "Soft Shock" is understated and oddly pretty while the warm hearted "Hysteric", placing deliberately dated eighties horn parts over a stately rhythm, is yet another standout. Only the punchy, oriental-inflected rockabilly of "Dull Life" and the subtle ballad "Runaway" show off Nick Zinner’s distinct guitar style, the latter enhanced by guest Greg Kurstin’s twinkling piano lines. Most of these tunes are built around three chord tricks dressed up in retro electronic garb by the band and producers David Sitek and Nick Launay, but they’re no less appealing for that. As an exercise in attracting new listeners while still pleasing old fans, It’s Blitz is pretty much perfect. --Steve Jelbert

CD Description
Yeah Yeah Yeahs return with the highly anticipated follow up to 2006's Show Your Bones. Recorded with Nick Launay (producer of Yeah Yeah Yeah’s 2007 “Is Is” EP) and longtime collaborator, TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek, the album sessions took the city dwelling band from the snow-covered fields of rural Massachusetts and Long View Studios, to Sitek’s Staygold complex in Brooklyn before heading south to a studio in Tornillo in the Texan desert for further confinement and recording. It's Blitz signals both a glance backward and a step forward for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with the appearance of synths for the first time. 

Customer Reviews

GOODBYE GUITARS, HELLO SYNTHESIZER
This is probably an album that should not have worked, as usually any band that decide to get rid of an instrument that they are known for and replace it with one that they have not included on there previous two albums and eps, would usually mean career suicide or ridicule for trying something different. (Chris Cornell's dreadful new album 'scream' springs to mind straight away)

However its quite the opposite as 'It's Blitz' shows a new side to the yeah yeah yeahs and quietens the people who called them a one dimensional guitar band, or the people who thought they were going to go and make a soft album and continue in the vain of the second half of second album 'Show your Bones'.

Its evident from the first song 'zero' that 'It's Blitz' is going to be different, as before guitarist Nick Zinner would make his guitar squeal with effects he now has it replaced with a synthesizer. Its put to great use on nearly all ten tracks, with the standouts been zero, heads will roll, soft shock, dull life, shame and fortune and hysteric. Lead singer Karen O is a brilliant as ever even if trademark screeching is kept firmly in the background.

With the digipack deluxe edition you get four of the songs done acoustically, but its definitely the originals that you will keep coming back to.

Spectacular Album!
This is my first Yeah Yeah Yeahs album purchase - though I expect it wont be my last! Fabulous, especially tracks like Dull Life which is my favourite. It reminds me of old Siouxsie & the Banshees albums which is certainly no bad thing.

It's Fresh!
One thing that really keeps me hooked to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs is the extent to which they mature with every album; from the rawness of their first EP, the punky, feverish Fever To Tell, the more polished Show your Bones & now the much more sophisticated sound of It's Blitz. If someone had told me in advance they had added synths to their arsenal, I would have assumed it wouldn't work, that they'd go against the rawness of Karen O's distinctive powerful-yet-vulnerable voice - but it actually fits in quite naturally, adding a new level of sophistication to their music.

I'ts Blitz is another great album by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which like their others, has its own distinct vibe & sees them avoiding falling into a rut, which says a lot about their talent. I felt that after the sheer power of the first 3 tracks, the next few seemed overwhelmed & less distinctive on the first few listens but having a couple of slow burners has given It's Blitz lots of replay value for me.

Incidentally, I'd highly recommend this Digipack version as it includes acoustic versions of 4 of the album tracks. It's interesting to compare them with the synthed versions (especially 'Skeletons' which works well in both formats) & see the different impact the change in sound gives them.