Show Your Bones

For the thousands of Sonic Youth junkies who read this:


While you take all that in, um, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are coming out with a new cd, called Show Your Bones. They made up this whole elaborate lie earlier in the year and said the new album was going to be about the life of Karen O's cat, Coco, and probably include a lot of folk influences. I held back a few tears. The real deal hype machine is in full effect now, though, and the new album is cat-less and hopefully folk-less too. I loved Fever to Tell.

Karen O: "Show Your Bones is what happens when you put your finger in a light socket. Maybe there is some of that electric current flowing through the tracks of our album illuminating us from the inside out for you to laugh at and cry to or fry to. Or not.” Deep.

I just heard the single, Gold Lion, and shit. It's definately fleshed out. The YYY's recorded their last album in a wet paper bag in somewhere in Brooklyn. And by the sounds of this, they got themselves a big chunk of glossy LA studio.

Karen O's vocal are helium-ized, and almost unrecognizably banal. The only thing YYY about them are the 'ooh-ooh' screeched choruses. The song is good, sure, but the jazzed up production kinda ruins it for me, because what I loved so much about Fever to Tell was the cacophonic urgency the ridiculous sparseness gave it. The glass-half-empty part of my brain wants to think this will end up in a Target commercial. Plus the beginning sounds like the steaming pile of unadultered shit that is that Weezer song, Beverly Hills.

witness: http://s62.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=14I7B5573BB4O1E4MON0AJITUS