| (Secretly Canadian)
Karen O is more incisive than ever on the band’s first album since 2013, which fluctuates between burning intensity and awestruck love Cool It Down is something of a misnomer. The first album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs since 2013 fumes, seethes, smokes, smirks. It’s not the polemic that acerbic lead single Spitting Off the Edge of the World, a collaboration with Los Angeles indie luminary Perfume Genius, may have suggested. But it’s not placid, either: minimalist and, at only eight tracks, intensely focused, it crackles with furious energy, a slow-motion film of combusting fireworks. Lead singer Karen O is known for her incandescent live performance style, her pursuit of a bodily exorcism that is dazzling and dangerous. Here, more than ever, it feels as if she is transferring that spirit into the band’s music. Writing with few words, she channels something raw and spiritual – chanting the word “time” over and over on Lovebomb as if to convey the shortness of it, asking “whatcha gonna do?” on Burning like a cruel taunt to those enmeshed in climate denialism. Continue reading... |
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