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It's Blitz: Deluxe Edition (CD)

By: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Artist)

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DISC 1 for It's Blitz: Deluxe Edition (CD) Album By Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Artist)
1   Zero
2   Heads Will Roll
3   Soft Shock
4   Skeletons
5   Dull Life
6   Shame And Fortune
7   Runaway
8   Dragon Queen
9   Hysteric
10   Little Shadow
11   Soft Shock
12   Skeletons
13   Hysteric
14   Little Shadow
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.82) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The turn towards the dance floor makes sense: Yeah Yeah Yeahs are drawing on a tradition of arty New York dance punk that extends from the Talking Heads to TV on the Radio, whose guitarist, Dave Sitek, co-produced IT'S BLITZ!"
Spin (p.84) - "[T]he alternative pop album of the decade -- one that imbues the Killers' HOT FUSS and MGMT's ORACULAR SPECTACULAR with a remarkable emotional depth and finesse."
Entertainment Weekly (p.64) - "Karen O spends much of IT'S BLITZ! delivering her yearning yowl over gently burbling keyboard chords instead of Zinner's trademark circular-saw riffs....Subbing out an instrument and switching up the tempo that way is a fairly radical change." -- Grade: B+
Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]he Yeah Yeah Yeahs still create great, compelling pop-rock, largely because of the way the songs themselves are organized, with conventional verse-chorus structures repeatedly eschewed in favor of detours, miniature grooves and lengthy asides..."
Clash (magazine) (p.106) - "With new influences and some widescreen moments, IT'S BLITZ finds Yeah Yeah Yeahs refreshed, rejuvenated and raring to go."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Opener 'Zero' sees them wholeheartedly embracing the 80s revival wave -- only, trust them to do it with a fresh rawness that's as invigorating as anything on their debut EP."

Title Note

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, drum machine); Brian Chase (drums, cymbals, percussion).

Audio Mixers: Matty Green; Chris Kasych; Mark "Spike" Stent.

Audio Remasterer: Ted Jensen.

Recording information: Seedy Underbelly,CA.

On their third full-length, critically embossed New York trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs embrace immersive dancefloor sonics … la Daft Punk and MGMT full bore with a metamorphosis that works remarkably for a band with noisy avant-garage beginnings. Placing Karen O's signature carnal snark astride eruptive synthesizer throbs, "Zero" and "Heads Will Roll" provide a dramatic opening one-two punch. Somewhat surprisingly given the album's title, the band subsequently opts for mellower, more amorphous tracks like the almost Celtic "Skeletons" and the orchestral "Runaway," both of which foreground a cinematic sweep and a more pensive, tuneful Ms. O.

"Dull Life" finds them hitching their trademark explosive choruses to a Brian Eno-esque soundscape, while "Dragon Queen" one-ups the Ting Tings with a layered and deeply satisfying electro-funk groove anchored by the trio's beat master, Brian Chase. The high-profile mid-career rock-band jump to the disco has been tried before, but IT'S BLITZ! suits the YYYs better than, say, U2 with POP. Nick Zinner's affected guitar breaks have always had the precision and texture of electro's synth riffs, and Ms. O's sing-songy hooks possess a lot more lipsmacking sensuality than Bono's ever did.

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