Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz

New album from Karen O and company in wich seem to be get away from the “alternative” sound still showed in "Show Your Bones" delivering now an album with a more varied sound but also much closer to pop. While the trio has never been the non plus ultra of rock, and dance music has been not entirely strange to his discography, songs such as openers "Zero" and "Heads Will Roll", rather than rhythmic, shamelessly discotheque music or "Dragon Queen", another poppy dance song with 80´s influences, may be disappointing for those hoping to find the melodic but full of energy and guitars music that the band had delivered in their last album in pieces like "Cheated Hearts" and "Mysteries". However "It's Blitz" is not a bad record, irregular perhaps, and contains good songs in which New Yorkers recover some energy like "Softshock" the third song in which Nick Zinner guitar stands out for the first time in the album, or "Fortune And Shame" aggressive and slightly noise, as well as others in wich calm arrives like "Skeletons", a quiet, almost atmospheric piece in which Karen O is accompanied just by idyllic keyboards and "Hysteric" a beautiful dream pop in wich for a moment we do not know if we are listening to Karen O and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs or to Amy Millan and Stars. At the end "It's Blitz" is an uneven album in which we are often tempted to push the "Next" button and then we find songs that tempt us to push the "Repeat" button. One of those records that leave us with a bittersweet taste. -CORANNIEIT-

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz
Interscope, 2009

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