Cool It Down
A great Yeah Yeah Yeahs song can make you feel like you’re on top of the world and have no idea what you’re doing at the same time. The difference here—on their first album since 2013’s *Mosquito*—is a sense of maturity: Instead of tearing up the club, they’re reminiscing about it (“Fleez”), having traded their endless nights for mornings as bright and open as a flower (“Different Today”). And after spending 20 years seesawing between their aggressive side and their sophisticated, synth-pop side, they’ve found a sound that genuinely splits the difference (“Burning”). Listening to Karen O’s poem about watching the sunset with her young son (“Mars”), two thoughts come to mind. One is that they’ve always been kids, this band. The other is that the secret to staying young is growing up.
It could only be called alchemy, the transformative magic that happens during the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ most tuned-in moments in the studio, when their unique chemistry sparks opens a portal, and out comes a song like “Maps” or “Zero” or the latest addition to their canon, “Spitting off the Edge of the World featuring Perfume Genius” — an epic shot-to-the-heart of pure YYYs beauty and power. A thunderstorm of a return is what the legendary trio has in store for us on Cool It Down, their fifth studio album and their first since 2013’s Mosquito. The eight-track collection, bound to be a landmark in their catalog, is an expert distillation of their best gifts that impels you to move, and cry, and listen closely.
The trio’s first album in nine years ushers in a patient new era for the band, gracefully shedding the electrifying hunger of its early days to make room for tempered joy.
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Cool It Down is certainly an apt title for Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ fifth studio album.
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Cool It Down by Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase return on fine form, with a welcome cameo from Perfume Genius
Yeah Yeah Yeahs's 'Cool It Down' sounds unmistakably contemporary without ever veering into flavor-of-the-month pandering.
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Cool It Down by Yeah Yeah Yeahs album review by Adam Williams. The trio's new album drops on September 30th via Secretly Canadian
Karen O is more incisive than ever on the band’s first album since 2013, which fluctuates between burning intensity and awestruck love
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