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
3. Soft Shock
4. Skeletons
5. Dull Life
6. Shame And Fortune
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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5578 in Music
• Released on: 2009-04-06
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .66 pounds
• Running time: 42 minutes

CD Description
Brooklyn's Yeah Yeah Yeahs led an art-rock insurrection with their debut album 'Fever To Tell' in 2003, and the long-awaited release of their third, 'It's Blitz', cements them as more than merely scene figureheads. While it shares occasional sonic similarities to their earlier work, the majority of'It's Blitz' sees the band tackling more intricate and considered territory. However, with lead single 'Zero' they prove that they still know how to marshal the dancefloor, albeitwith an unexpectedly industrial-sounding edge.

Customer Reviews

Hell, Yeah!
Part of me wants to hate them.
Karen O & Co. are some god-damned ice-cool, so irritatingly hip and self-assured that a little segment of my psyche couldn't stand them, if only I didn't love them so much.

If ever was my chance to eject them from their hallowed reverence in my heart, to repeal the acerbic journalese immunity that their magnificent back-catalogue has afforded them in spite of their posturing: the time is now.

With the imminent release of It's Blitz, there is an amnesty on my pent-up niggles with the band that have been - like Mary Poppins - practically perfect in every way. The simple reason for this is It's Blitz has hardly any guitars on it, at all.

Music Week has simultaneously - and rather inelegantly, by their own admission - compared the whole record to both Blondie and the genre of disco! *Oh dear, surely this must be the end for our tenacious trio? Have Ms O and Co. gone the way of the dodo? Will It's Blitz be more of a mayfly than a doodle-bug? For the answers to this and more, dear visitor, read on...*

With the trend towards all that is Eighties at the moment, we'd be forgiven for thinking that these hip-kids were jumping onto another bandwagon, particularly since this album initially seems to have more in common with the Ting Tings then their past work. OK, that comparison is overly harsh, though they are certainly taking a leaf from the collective compendium of avant-garde electronica emanating from Brooklyn and basements apartments of the swelling ranks of sound artists from the further reaches of NYC's five boroughs. Parts & Labor recently released a not dissimilar record and - though only one will get air-play - both are ambitious and beautiful, full of ambient electronica and yet still passionate and rockin'.

Yes, that's right: as reward for persevering with both this article and the album proper, the rocking moments do come; they just take five tracks to happen. Then, suddenly, the YYYs are Wayne's World band, Crucial Taunt covering Ballroom Blitz. There are also sound-bytes reminiscent of Seventies' kids TV mysteries, slips of Eighties' hip-hop, a veritable smorgasbord of disparate delights crafted into a neo-cut'n'paste rollercoaster, all rattling long at a fair old lick with the inertia of past glories. By the time you get to Runaway, a track as achingly delicate and beautiful as a Jean-Pierre Jeunet flick, you'll have fallen in love with YYYs all over again.


So, yeah, I guess it would be easy to whinge and mourn the loss of the guitar. But I'm not an NME reader, I can live without it. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are doing what all truly important, historic, era-defining bands do. They've done what Radiohead did. They've left the likes of The Kills behind and are now grown up and moving in the same circles as PJ Harvey - handling adolescent emotions with hindsight and wisdom (not that you can't still dance to it). They are evolving, and - sidestepping any overused natural world metamorphosis metaphors - they have transformed from something wonderful into something completely different yet equally spectacular. With each track, you're drawn further and further into the YYYs new world and, after the initial culture shock, you'll be pleased to find that you'll not need your international socket adapter after all: it's entirely oddly familiar and comfortable.
I love them. Album of the year, already.

J Capeling

Modern day PUNK!
For a few years now The Yeah,Yeah,Yeahs have been @ the cutting edge of their particular scene.Simple ingredients done really well.Good songs.Compotent musicianship,Catchy hooks.Interesting,vibrant.Can't be faulted.Keeps their growing loyal fans of which i'm one! wanting more.I look forward to the next instalment.