Let’s start the week with some spunky indie rockers, today’s recommendation comes from New York City, by the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They started back in 2000 and comprise of Karen O (Vocals), Brian Chase (Drums) and Nick Zinner (Guitars & Keyboards)
The band started as an art project under the name Unitard by Karen and Nick, they later tagged in Brian as the drummer whom Karen had already met as students while in college. They play without a bass player and serve up a beautiful mess which is part punk, part groove and part new wave. Here’s what Karen thought of their music
“… I wanted this to be more than just a band. We had very specific ideas about what we wanted to be. We wanted to have an element of violence, an element of bliss, and an element of sexuality, that would all kind of fuse together and create a real goodtime good show that would knock people out of their self-consciousness."
They owe a lot to the garage rock revival driven by The Strokes and The White Stripes and early on before they changed their music to a cleaner, more pop sound, were labeled as a sound-alike of these bands too, much to Brian’s chagrin
“It pissed me off when people said we sound like The Strokes and White Stripes, It was just the laziest assumption, like people weren't even listening.”
The song I’m recommending, Phenomena comes from their second album Show Your Bones, they started changing their sound in this album from the trashy punk to new wave and pop and I think this song sits right in the middle of that transition. The song is drenched in sexual innuendos and I think some references to drugs as well, at times I feel that they will be better off hiring a full time bass player but for this song I think not having a bass player is working in their favor, I love the combination of drums and her raw edgy vocals in the chorus. I will throw in one live performance here, don’t forget to checkout the Facebook page for a detailed interview of theirs and some other live performances, here’s the song
If you like this song you can get it from the link below
If you’d like to know more about them, here’s the link to their Wikipedia page
Here they are live @ Reading Festival skip to 3:30 that's when Phenomena starts
Still wanna know more about them, here’s the link to their official website
Enjoy!!!
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