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YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Show Your Bones
| Popmatters | | What do we want from a sophomore album? I don’t just mean “we” to imply some vague, indeterminate listenership—I mean those of us who actively think about these things on more than an idle basis. Those of us, critics or armchair critics who take such questions seriously, who spend a lot of time thinking about this music and the people who make it, have redefined the common language used to discuss the music in such a way as to impact the creative process of the music itself....full text |
| | Jam! | Not so many decades ago, music lovers routinely had heated arguments over the identity of the "Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World."
Today, we have more important things to worry about (like speculating over the identity of the next American Idol castoff)....full text |
| | NME | | First things first, we need to deal with the elephant in the room, to dispel the thick fug of rumour that hangs heavy over this release. 'Show Your Bones' is not, repeat not, a concept album about Karen O's pussy. Perhaps we should clarify. Despite earlier reports by producer Squeak E Clean (aka Sam Spiegal, brother of Karen O's ex-flame, Spike Jonze), the LP is not titled 'Coco Beware', and is hence not a concept album detailing the rise of the titular cat in Karen O's affections. No friends, what we have is something far grander than that. What we have here is 2006's Yeah Yeah Yeahs presenting themselves as a band that have cut themselves free from the fetters of a movement they helped birth and wrapped up warm in the robe of reinvention....full text |
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