Wednesday, June 10, 2009
I honestly can’t remember much of the concert the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played on June 3 at the Beaumont Club in Kansas City, Mo. I was left with stinging neon afterimages and a newfound addiction to Yeah Yeah Yeahs concerts. I’d better come clean now: I’m a Yeah Yeah Yeahs fan.
The group played its old songs with gusto, despite this tour being a promotion for its new album, “It’s Blitz!” For the first song, “Heads Will Roll”, lead singer Karen O wore a bizarre hood that had a spiral of pink lights. This playful eccentricity defines, at least in part, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ music. The group’s image, with crazy Karen O at front and center with her band mates cloaked in the shadows, meshes with its music with startling fluidity.
It’s hard to categorize the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in a genre, especially with the group’s new album, in which it has incorporated a new synthetic sound to its minimalist guitar-and-drums music. Yet the group members have not drifted from their roots; they’ve simply elevated themselves, very daintily, to the next level.
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