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another premiership season begins-more of my life wasted!
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When The Strokes made the world's music press go mad over any band that happened to work within a hundred miles of New York it was painfully obvious that we'd have to put up with plenty of pale imitations of the Velvet Underground and a thousand poor versions of Sonic Youth.
So when I first heard of the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, a painfully hip New York three piece speciallising in scratchy art rock, I was expecting to hate them.All pretension and hype and no substance, no magic.Then I heard the music and I couldn't have been more wrong.Because like The Strokes and fellow New Yorkers The John Spencer Blues Explosion (both of whom the band have supported), the Yeah Yeah Yeah's know that the first rules of rock are to be loud, aggresive and sexy as hell.Combining Nick Zinner's art-punk guitars, Karen O's visceral screech and Brian Chase's well drilled drumming produces a noise akin to The Slits discovering guitar pedals or Sonic Youth stripping their arty-noise to its bare bones.
Openning song 'Bang' is a pounding sensaul beast, with Karen growling and groaning her way into your heart.The drums and guitars shuffle shambolically their way forward, creating a seductive repetitive groove.Most radio stations failed to hear the expletives and so played it in the afternoon.
'Mystery Girl' is a classic pop song built upon simplistic drumming and scrathcy guitars.It's angular and awkward but catchy and cool at the same time.
'Art Star' is an ode to success and indulgence, with half spoken verses before Karen lets out an awesome scream and Nick Zinner's guitars move from art-school to grindcore.
'Miles Away' is the least impressive track, although the urgency in the guitars and Karen's voice carry the slightly uninspired songwriting.It's probably just because the rest of the ep is so good.
'Our TIme' is as confident a finish as you could hope for.Slwoer and more restrained than the rest of the album, with Karen crooning 'It's our time sweet baby/to break on through/It's the year to be hated'.It's the band's own response to those who think they are just the product of NME hype.
This Ep was the band's debut in 2002.They released a further Ep called 'Machine' before their debut album 'Fever to Tell'.None of the tracks fromt hese two Ep's are included on the album.In 2005 the band returned with their second album 'Show yr bones'.They also have a live DVD available called 'Tell me what rockers to swallow' recorded live at the Filmore in San Francisco.
Although both the band's albums are very good they never really got any better than on this Ep.The urgency, belief and down right seductiveness that they captured here have never really been displayed as well as on songs like 'Bang' or 'Art Star' and this stands as the defining moment in their career so far.
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The way this review was written needs a good E to get it started i think, reallly enjoyed the read and most readers don't relaise it's an EP your reviewing, i mean what more can you say on 4 or 5 songs that are ususally just for commercial acclaim and not the tunes, suprised you was'nt that keen on Miles Away i loved it, got it free on a strokes influences CD with NME fironically hehe, a fab review man with a unique musical talent please keep up these amazin reviews can't believe i missed this one.......Darko
Shoka 30.07.2006 22:02
Good review, I first heard the Yeahs on X-fm about 4 years ago. Havent heard much from them lately though, Karen O seems a genuine type of crazy rock chick unlike so many of the phonies out there.
Vheissu 30.07.2006 12:20
i've never really understood the appeal of these guys; they just come across as a rather bland attempt to be creative.... but hey, that's just me. Alex
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