4/12/2023 0 Comments Heads will roll sample![]() ![]() The annotated sampling continues with “Fleez,” a thumping tune that namedrops ESG and incorporates elements of NYC art-funk influencers’ 1981 song “Moody (Spaced Out)” (Renee Scroggins is given a writing credit). The live string arrangement is lush and inviting, as is the piano melody interpolated from the Four Seasons’ “Beggin,’” (likely better known now as a Måneskin song). The lead single “Burning,” the band’s most thrilling song since Blitz!, is more explosive as O’s patented seethe leaps through the chorus: “Into the sea, out of fire / All that burning,” is about California’s rampant wildfires. But then came another misstep in the lo-fi art-punk scuzz of Mosquito in 2013 ambitious, foreboding arrangements, but the YYYs’ least listenable project to date (by quite a bit). The alt-pop dance mania of It’s Blitz! in 2009 was, to its credit, a genuinely thrilling, fan-awaited progression - “Zero” and “Heads Will Roll” remain bulletproof singles, and were a shrewd pivot. The follow-up, 2006’s Show Your Bones, was more tentative and familiar in an uninspiring way - wholly forgettable, especially 15 years later. ![]() With Fever, in all its exhilarating, teeth-baring bar room glory, every moment felt as though Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase were hurtling toward the precipice of something extraordinary, and perhaps with a little more time to grow and live, the young trio would bloom into one of the most indispensable rock bands of the 21st century. When the Yeah Yeah Yeahs ensnared the rock consciousness with Fever to Tell almost 20 years ago, the band’s true magic was never bound to where they’d been - the romanticized New York underground pedigree, those “had to be there” early shows - but where they might be going. ![]()
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