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Album: Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Mosquito'
Member Since: 4/20/2012
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Originally posted by Sloth
The cover is just 
Looks like I'll have to design a fan-made one for myself |
And post it here for a sister in need.  Cover is terrifying..
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Member Since: 3/11/2011
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Originally posted by Gui Blackout
I'm here.  Ugh I can't stop playing Earth, so AMAZING. |
Im sorry sis, but you cant stop playing Earth? What's that? Am I missing something?
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Member Since: 6/22/2011
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Are they ****ing serious with that disgusting cover...ugh
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Member Since: 11/24/2011
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I'm so excited!!! I'm glad they're putting out music now and I get to see them at firefly in june.
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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I don't understand why people hate the cover. 
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Member Since: 2/14/2012
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Originally posted by Michael
I don't understand why people hate the cover. |
+1
It's great! And the 3D illustration is FLAWLESS. 
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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1. "Sacrilege" 3:50
2. "Subway" 5:16
3. "Mosquito" 2:59
4. "Under The Earth" 4:18
5. "Slave" 4:06
6. "These Paths" 5:03
7. "Area 52" 2:54
8. "Buried Alive" (feat. Dr Octagon) 5:16
9. "Always" 4:07
10. "Despair" 4:48
11. "Wedding Song" 4:58
TRACKS 1 - 11 PLUS:
12. "Subway (NOLA Demo)" 3:54
13. "Wedding Song (Acoustic Version)" 2:53
14. "Despair (Acoustic Version)" 5:00
15. "Mosquito (Live From YYYs Bunker Studio)" 3:24
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Member Since: 9/9/2012
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I hate the cover. I like them, but I don't listen to them anymore. I'll download this when it leaks though.
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Member Since: 3/18/2008
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Originally posted by slowride3112
Im sorry sis, but you cant stop playing Earth? What's that? Am I missing something?
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Under the Earth, they played live (check the OP). 
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Member Since: 11/17/2010
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Love the cover. Now that Ive heard Sacrilege my hype level has increased greatly.
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Member Since: 3/25/2012
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So excited! Plan on getting the deluxe version when it drops. Sacrilege kind of hit my expectations right where they were planted so I'm happy with the new material. The choir gave me "Gimme Shelter" teas.
Why don't they ever tour Canada, though?
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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Sacrilege gets better with every listen. The album's just a month away 
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Member Since: 8/30/2011
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Member Since: 8/30/2011
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They're on!!! Tune in mother****ers.
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Member Since: 7/13/2004
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I used to like them. Maps is still one of my favorite songs ever and the album with Gold Lion was decent
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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As if the promise of a new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album wasn’t incitement enough, Karen O’s been stirring up the band’s followers with hot words of promise lately. “We would love for this music to make our fans feeeeel something, for it to stir some **** up inside of them,” she enthused.
You might, from that description, have expected an album filled with the raw lust of their early work or the electric thrill of ‘Zero’. ‘Mosquito’, the trio’s fourth album, though, sucks you in far more subtly than that, true to O’s other promise of “moodier and tripped-out songs than you’ve ever heard from us.” It’s a slow-burner that doesn’t trip over itself trying to win your love; a late-night, louche sort of album totally belied by the Day-Glo cartoon violence of that sleeve.
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‘Sacrilege’
The tense, luxurious teaser for the album is a good way in to its insular world, the rhythm close and nervy, Karen’s best punk yowl suggesting all sorts of intimate head****s as she yells “falling for a guy/Fell down from the sky/Feathers in a bed/IN OUR BEEEED!” over and over atop Nick Zinner’s deliciously fluid licks. The climactic gospel ending, so strange for the first track of an album, sets you up for a tracklisting full of odd sequencing.
‘Subway’
…not least the second track, which sidesteps ‘Sacrilege’’s momentum into a soft, spooky, ghostly alley. The band returned to a lo-fi, New York basement style of recording for this album, and parts of it feel like a big fat kiss to the city they’ve loved so much. This bereft ghost’s lament from the platform is a tribute to the loneliness of the Metro. It’s eerily lulling, the guitar melody nursery-rhyme sweet and simple, but it captures you in its soft, small-hours sound-world.
‘Mosquito’
As album’s only real fire-in-the-belly moment, the title track is a taut, punk-funkin’ thing with harsh, clanking rhythms, a bit like early Talking Heads but with a strut instead of a neurotic wibble.
‘Under The Earth’
The “roots reggae” influence that O also spoke of comes through gently here through a moody, martial beat and a doomy thrum of sexy, evil guitar. ““Down down under the earth goes another lover/Milk you for what it’s worth,” threatens Karen, before a shift of gear with an ethereal, disco-ish mid-section.
‘Slave’
Keeping it dubby and menacing, with unsettling squalls and scratches of guitar in the middle distance, this is full of self-debasing lust, Karen gasping “Keep me, keep me your slave”. Zinner goes for it with the punk rock guitar heroics as the song builds satistfyingly towards the end.
‘These Paths’
This has a trip-hoppy feel with clickety-split percussion and scissoring guitar rasps setting a sensually sullen scene. Again Karen seems embittered, paranoid, caught in a relationship turning wrong: “Take your piece take a sip/Of your stock from that ship.” Unfortunately, this drags its subtleties at least a minute too long, and feels a little overindulgent by the end.
‘Area 52’
A change of pace with a silly, stompy punk-rock song about aliens. Yeah! A couple of listens in, I’m still not sure if the way the album’s tracklisting leaps about wildly is a good thing or a bad thing, but it certainly keeps you on your toes.
‘Buried Alive’
With production by James Murphy and an appearance from Kool Keith in his Dr Octagon guise, this should have been a high point. It is good, and a fine New York lineage moment, but despite Zinner’s shreds, feels like it doesn’t quite have the energy to carry the guest rap, which, to be honest, isn’t brilliant.
‘Always’
Probably the album’s slightest moment, this sounds almost like Cults, with the delicacy of Karen’s solo work and a sort of hipster-calypso feel. Things are, as they inevitably do towards the end of a YYYs album, turning soppy: “You’re there through my wasted days/You’re there through my wasted nights/You’re there through my wasted life”
‘Despair’
I was praying for this to be a splenetic, daft, fun thing with Karen just shrieking the title over and over. It is at least, prefixed with ‘don’t’, but it starts subtly, with Suicide-ish drum machine and spare guitar are beguiling enough, before building into a big, bouncy, ‘Cheated Hearts’-style beast.
‘Wedding Song’
The sort of soft,-hearted album closer that Yeah Yeah Yeahs do so well, this feels like it could have done with more of a build-up, but you’d have to be a hard cold bastard not to let it snuggle your ears, as Karen purrs “Some kind of violent bliss led me to love like this/One thousand deaths my dear… You’re the breath that I breathe”. They know how to leave you longing more, even if they also like to confuse the hell out of you.
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Member Since: 2/14/2012
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ONE DAY y'all will discover the flawlessness on the cover.
ONE DAY.
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Member Since: 6/1/2012
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holy **** that music video is NOT good to watch when you're stoned
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