Yeah Yeah Yeahs Live Dates

• 11th Mar 2009

YEAH YEAH YEAHS are back back BACK! The New York City trio are poised to release the follow-up to 2006’s “Show Your Bones”, an album described as “a slow-burning masterpiece” by Observer Music Monthly and “one of the albums of the decade” by NME.

“It’s Blitz!” is currently available to buy digitally, with its physical release date set for 6th April on Interscope/Polydor. Single “Zero” – a huge, electronic dance-floor anthem of a song, is out on 13th April. NOTHING else feels like this right now. “We've got a death grip on the adolescent way of feeling things,” says Karen O, touching on the track’s euphoric abandon.

“It’s Blitz!” was recorded with Nick Launay (producer of YYY’s 2007 released “Is Is” EP) and longtime collaborator TV On The Radio’s Dave Sitek. The album sessions took the city dwelling band from the snow-covered fields of rural Massachusetts and Long View Studios, to Sitek’s Staygold complex in Brooklyn before heading south to a studio in Tornillo in the Texan desert for further confinement and recording. “It's Blitz” signals both a glance backward and a step forward for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Guitarist Nick Zinner had brought along an old keyboard he bought on eBay to work with during the writing session not expecting it to end up on the album. However, the sounds of the vintage Arp were so right for the new songs that they found their way into the atmospheric washes of “Skeletons”, the disco wiggles of “Heads Will Roll”, and New Wave melodrama of “Soft Shock”. “Obviously, synths have been in rock music forever,” Zinner says. “But to us it feels new, which is all we really care about—that excitement.” The whole record has a new feeling of space and atmosphere, a new sonic dimension, if you will.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ incendiary live shows are the stuff of legend. They make their eagerly anticipated return to the UK in April.

UK LIVE DATES IN APRIL

April 22nd Manchester Academy

April 25th London Shepherds Bush

April 26th London Shepherds Bush