Album Review

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll

• 25th Jun 2009

Another dose of provocative disco indie that deals in vocal simplicity that’s also slightly laboured, almost sensational and certainly attention grabbing. ‘Heads Will Roll’, represents Karen-O and friend’s attempt to convince Festival goers that their hazy, light dance edge is as important to a modern festival as a flushable toilet.

Toe-tapping percussion rhythm helps the build up to O’s mild spasms of euphoria, power venting and controlled feistiness, as the sliding guitars keep s the tempo from dropping into a pit of lethargy. The usual quaintness of a YYYs jaunt is still lurking around like a dateless wonder at a disco, but their usual urgency and at times annoying, but irresistible catchiness seems to have been left in the locker room this time around.

You just wonder if Lady Ga-Ga will just have a little too much in the omnipotent femme pop/disco stakes this year, for O and company to demand and capture their usual amount of attention?