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New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album Show Your Bones
Chesire Cat:
The first album was alot more fun to listen to. And was alot more individual. If it was recorded live then I very much want to see the YYYs live.
Now to talk about their NEW album, and not to whip it out over their old one. I am really liking Cheated Hearts, I think its their stand out track for this album. Its got enough of the quirky with a large spoonful of the melodic.
There are plenty of forgetable tracks but thats forgivable, Honeybear and the Sweets as well as their first single Gold Lion are also pretty solid.
Now there are tracks like Phenomena which has a chorus sounding almost like a cover of LL Cool J's song of the same name but I think thats a little more coincidence then anything and I would have liked it if it was either a full on cover, or completely different. The fact that is similar enough to draw a line but doesnt really follow up really hurts the song and my idea of the band as a whole.
I havent had enough listens to really break it down adn get a good grip on every song but my general impression is its got a little bit of the Sophmore Slump going on. Fever to Tell had a slew of high energy songs with a peppering of melodic. For their second album it seems they have dropped the energy, added more melody. This seems about an album or two too soon for them, as many of their fans(me) really liked the rawness of the first album, and are looking for something thats a little more similiar in a followup. I dont deny the progression of Show Your Bones, I do question the timing. It would make a great 3rd album but makes for a lackluster second.
Houdinimachine:
I fell asleep halfway through the new album. I'm so disappointed I may not go to their concert this month that I already bought the ticket for. There's nothing near as catchy as some of the off the wall shit from the first album.
NosLycn:
I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and hope that I can somehow nab a ticket for their sold out concert in Toronto. As for the new album, I find it is best to throw the two albums together and shuffle them. Either that or make a mixtape of Y Control, Gold Lion, Tick, Black Tongue, Turn Into, Phenomena, and whatever else you like by them. See how that lineup kinda works? Adjust according to how you throw in the other songs, but you generally want to make them run together smoothly as possible and I'd recommend keeping Maps off there. Maps is a great single, but all in all it is my least favourite of them all.
The new album definitely seems marked to more mainstream listeners. They might actually get a song on Canadian radio stations if they keep that up (shudders at the thought of radio stations).
I Like the new Album. However, Fever to Tell is definitely more my speed.
Praeserpium Machinarum:
I listened to it for the first time today, and after reading the reviews I thought it be more subdued than it is. It would rash to base my opinion of the album from one listen, but I feel their "camp fire moments" are a bit dull. It is by no means a bad album though and still they know how to rock :)
NosLycn:
--- Quote ---It is by no means a bad album though and still they know how to rock Smile
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True. It is by no means a "bad" album, per se. But, it is slower and more in line with what people (in the mainstream) will buy. It is also more in-line with radio music fashion. I believe they made the album for the sole purpose of letting Karen's voice have a bit of a break. After all, we don't want her to get vocal nodes. Those things suck.
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