Launching into life with a synth line as essential to the indie disco as a night-closing ‘Wonderwall’ and a dozen regrettable Jägerbombs, ‘Heads Will Roll’ is, for many, the quintessential Yeah Yeah Yeahs banger. “Choke, choke, choke” she wheezes by way of a hook, as her most vampiric performance put to tape finds her cackling away at the sordid confusion of a night on the tiles. Karen O’s vocal delivery on ‘Date With The Night’ is so razor-sharp it should come with a warning. That introductory guitar line instantly embedding itself in the memories of a generation of hyper-cool music obsessives, it remains to this day one of indie’s most powerful openers.
RichĪ bratty-but-brilliant cut of stabbing post-punk mania, ‘Rich’ opened ‘Fever To Tell’, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ genre-defining debut album. Zeroīoasting one of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most anthemic choruses, ‘Zero’ is an alt-club banger of the highest order, Karen O’s vocals reaching for the stars, while the grimy, bassy electronics below her dig around in the dirt of their New York City home. The title track of Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most recent record finds Karen O taking on the role of that titular insect, screeching about how she wants to “suck your blood” with all the ear-splitting cadence of a mosquito’s whine. ‘Gold Lion’, that curveball album’s opener, does a perfect job of wielding those new acoustic arrangements like an axe, hitting just as hard as any of the band’s more plugged-in numbers. Even for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the acoustic-led ‘Show Your Bones’ LP was an unexpected turn.
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