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Album Review: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!

The third record from New York's Yeah Yeah Yeahs is one of 2009's most anticipated releases. Early reviews say it's a bit of an about turn, but what do our resident Musos think?

BRIAN OTTEN
From the opening pulses of It's Blitz! it's blindingly apparent that this Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is totally different from anything Karen O and the boys have done before. If you had bet your sweet ass that it still sounds like the YYYs, as their website suggests, you'd be kissing it goodbye. It does nothing of the sort.

It's trying to be more Goldfrapp than 'Gold Lion' but there is a real lack of menace and danger here amongst the electro whipcracks and lush pads. 'Zero', the worthy first single, and 'Heads Will Roll' show that they've got their heads round the techno kit well enough. 'Dull Life' bustles along but the rest of the tracks see the band experimenting with their new sound on our time. 'Runaway' is no throwaway though, and it proves that Karen O can evoke some real tenderness despite having to rise above the corny tremolo string arrangements and breathy synth backdrops.

REBECCA SCHILLER

Despite a bump in the road known as Internet leakage, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have digitally released their third studio album, It Blitz!. And thank goodness for the leak, because we get to enjoy this album earlier than anticipated. Dance, dance, dance til you're dead, orders Karen O's signature smoothly-shrill vocals in Heads Will Roll, and there is nothing more you will want to do whilst listening to these ten tracks of non-stop party. Kicked up a notch on the badass scale (just look at the album cover), Karen O and her Yeahs bring on the electro-rock fit for any synth-lovers music collection.

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