yeah yeah yeahs - show your bones
first up - never fell for any of the hype around the first ep/album.
something about the haircut-centric karen o scared the living daylights out of me, and their minimal drum+guitar sound really made my skin crawl. all that manufactured cool, and devotional media excess. so, why oh why do i actually find myself enjoying the difficult second album? maybe the involvement of studio craftsman alan moulder has something to do with it, maybe it's the fact that the band have decided to drop all the scenester crap and just write some cracking tunes. of course, this means that fans of the last album will probably hate this as its being hailed as a proper grown up rock album, and in some ways i guess it is. proper song structures, fleshed out instrumentation make the album like some bastard mutation of primal rhythms, indie noise, post punk and proper pop music.
good stuff - despite the crap cover art.