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New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album Show Your Bones
supatyouKERI:
I've been meaning to pick it up.
Haven't really had the time yet. I do like the single though.
JLM:
I've listened to it a few times.
Meh.
While it's not bad...I think it's overproduced. The band works best with a more raw sound. Even on the more "melodic" tracks on Fever to Tell it still felt gritty and unpolished, and I think that's missing this time around.
Another band successfully neutered by their own success.
TrueNeutral:
What do you mean it feels overproduced? I'm not feelin' it.
Also, does anyone else think Deja Vu belongs in a spy movie?
sjbrot:
By "overproduced", he means "produced", in as much as the first album could have been one live take and has lots of fuzz. I met one guy who tried to convince me that that was the reason why Nirvana's first album was their best. I wasn't buying it.
JLM:
Thank you for putting words in my mouth.
I was also the guy who said that about Bleach. Even though I live in a different country than you and have never been remotely close to your neck of the woods. That was me.
Nevertheless, I may have misrepresented myself. What I meant when I said "overproduced" was "overthought," a case of too many cooks when the band seems to work best with simplicity. Notwithstanding perceptions of sub-par production values on the first album, one of the things that I enjoyed about it was the ability to generate a bigger sound from basically two instruments and a vocalist. Here it feels like there's all sorts of other crap being tossed in. Sometimes it's working, sometimes it isn't. On the whole, to me, it's a lackluster second effort.
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