Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! [2009]

I am going to sum this cd up with one word. One impolite, 'vulgar' word: Fuck.

This cd is so goddamn good that I wish to fornicate with it. I'm going to keep this really simple today.

While the last album release from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Show Your Bones) showed a relatively soft, laid back, simplistic indie feel, It's Blitz! has come along, which may as well read a sticker urging you to forget the past releases, and be prepared to be smacked with a cat that barks. If the cat can have a new sound, so can the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

It starts with the first single Zero, which has a noticable electro vibe running throughout it, which would make it feel quite at home in a dingly club full of indie hipsters who are standing around tall tables, sipping their fancy drinks and daring to not move a muscle to the beat of the music around them for fear of ruining their image. Hardly pretentious, even if the people in said fictional club are.

Don't be put off, in the offchance that you are, because it only gets better from there. Continuing with the sexy new electro feel, Heads Will Roll, which is so ridiculously catchy that there must be something wrong with your brain if it doesn't build a nest in the confines of your cranium and refuse to fuck the hell off. It's about then when you should be asking yourself, 'can this cd get any better?'

And the answer is a big fat yes. It really can. Track after track is juicy Yeah Yeah Yeahs goodness, with a delicious sprinkling of synths scattered throughout. Karen O remains as vocally distinctive as ever. No matter how big or little the change in their music, there is no doubting a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song. Ever.

Seriously, listen to this cd if given the opportunity. You won't regret it, and if you do, then it's your loss!