The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Yeah
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "[B]eneath the art-rock trappings the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are pop musicians. Theirs is a slightly scruffy version of pop, made with cheap instruments and Karen O's surreal lyrics, but their songs … have all the traits of Top Forty hits: economy, momentum, personality, and pleasure. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs value joy over indie credibility, and they want to be catchy. … [Brian] Chase, a compact, bespectacled young man, who attended Oberlin College with Karen O, is one of rock's most satisfying drummers; he is capable of complicated polyrhythms but rarely plays anything fussy. [Guitarist Nick] Zinner… is fine-featured and rail-thin, with a nest of black hair and a talent for writing elegant, howling guitar motifs that echo, but never overwhelm, her singing. Both men need to be this good to hold their own against Karen O, whose fearsome charisma would have made her a success had she appeared with nothing more than a microphone and a pair of maracas. … Karen O's voice lacks the power of Björk's, but she is as versatile a performer" ("Positive Attitude," 2/13-20/2006).
Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "[B]eneath the art-rock trappings the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are pop musicians. Theirs is a slightly scruffy version of pop, made with cheap instruments and Karen O's surreal lyrics, but their songs … have all the traits of Top Forty hits: economy, momentum, personality, and pleasure. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs value joy over indie credibility, and they want to be catchy. … [Brian] Chase, a compact, bespectacled young man, who attended Oberlin College with Karen O, is one of rock's most satisfying drummers; he is capable of complicated polyrhythms but rarely plays anything fussy. [Guitarist Nick] Zinner… is fine-featured and rail-thin, with a nest of black hair and a talent for writing elegant, howling guitar motifs that echo, but never overwhelm, her singing. Both men need to be this good to hold their own against Karen O, whose fearsome charisma would have made her a success had she appeared with nothing more than a microphone and a pair of maracas. … Karen O's voice lacks the power of Björk's, but she is as versatile a performer" ("Positive Attitude," 2/13-20/2006).
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