The band’s first album in nine years sounds unmistakably contemporary without veering into flavor-of-the-month pandering.
Crush Songs, a collection of lo-fi, half-baked songs, feels contrived, even disingenuous.
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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’s latest is a messy, forceful expression of creative restlessness.
It helps that the track sounds as quick and clever as Santi herself.
And now, a retelling of a recent conversation between two teenage girls and an older, wiser relative who gets owned.
The soundtrack is a structurally rich effort that matches the tone of Spike Jonze’s images.
With their latest, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs full-on metamorphose.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have emerged with a second full-length album that, like its predecessor, captures a band unbeholden to anyone’s expectations.