Santa Monica, CA (Top40 Charts/ Interscope Records) - "Giant eyeballs filled with helium hover at the back of the stage, looking out at a frontwoman in future-geisha robes and a headdress best described as Native American-nouveau. It's understandable why all eyes are on her (Karen O)...Not for the last time this evening, she looks as though she is having as much fun as a frontperson can legally have."
-The Guardian UK, December 6, 2009
New York's finest, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, have to be seen to be believed. And so they are releasing Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Live In London (DGC/Interscope Records) exclusively on the iTunes Store today (US). Captured performing a sold out concert at 02 Academy in Brixton on December 1, 2009, the art-punk-garage-rock provocateurs amaze and astound, visually and sonically, as they travel across their catalog. Included among the 16 songs are a handful from their latest album, 2009's Grammy nominated It's Blitz!, a top 5 album of 2009 in both Spin and NME.
View trailer on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drpq0I0JT8U
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Live In London offers a rapturous concert experience of the group, from the opening, with the band performing "Runaway" from behind a curtain before it drops mid-song to reveal the three giant Ys lowered onto the stage for "Gold Lion" to the stage being showered with confetti during "Skeletons," as well as the encore featuring an acoustic version of "Maps." The band's only previous concert release was 2004's Tell Me What Rockers To Swallow DVD, which featured a San Francisco concert.
Joining the trio of Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase on stage is renowned multi-instrumentalist David Pajo, who was newly enlisted as a touring member in 2009. Directed by Nick Wood, Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Live In London, includes performances of beloved songs such as "Maps," "Pin," "Y Control" and "Date With The Night" from their 2003 full-length debut Fever To Tell and "Gold Lion," "Runaway," "Cheated Hearts," "Phenomena," "Honeybear" and "Turn Into" from 2006's Show Your Bones. From It's Blitz!, the insanely catchy "Zero" (honored as the best song of the year by both Spin and NME) as well as "Heads Will Roll," "Skeletons," "Dull Life," "Hysteric" and "Soft Shock."
All three albums from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who formed in New York City in 2000, have been Grammy nominated for Best Alternative Music Album. Fever To Tell was named 2003's Album of the Year by The New York Times and ranked No 5 in NME and Top 30 in Rolling Stone in their lists of the greatest albums of the decade. Show Your Bones was named the second best album of 2006 by NME, which also included it among the publication's Top 50 of the decade. Rolling Stone and Spin also lauded that album in their year-end Top 50s.
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