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“Show Your Bones”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Interscope Records
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Fever To Tell” was something that confused a great number of people. This album was hard to fit into a mainstream category. The single “Maps,” an MTV2 mainstay in 2004, led off an album of mainstreamed art rock, punk and noise.
Almost two years later Karen O, Brian Chase and Nick Zinner have come out with a second full-length album on Interscope records. “Show Your Bones” starts in an upbeat fashion with its first five songs, and each one could be a contender on a modern pop chart. The next three keep the tempo up and the mood feeling pleasant. Finally the album finishes with three somber tracks that bring you back down to reality and demonstrate a much more personal side of the band. Like all albums, this one has its highs and lows ranging from the perky “Way Out” to the haunting “The Sweets.”
“Show Your Bones” is a much different album than their first, because it is clean and well produced. Although this album loses the raw underground sound that the first album captured so well, the sheer development and progression of O’s vocals, Chase’s drums and Zinner’s guitar fashion an album that contains a sophisticated mix of different textured sounds. “Show Your Bones” isn’t the product of a band selling out; this one can stand on its own without having to be propped up by the bands reputation. All in all, this is an album that works well and is worth owning.
-Kevin Reardon
