Yeah Yeah Yeahs: 'Zero'

"Shake it like a ladder to the sun," coos Karen O at the start of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' comeback single, somehow managing to imbue this nonsensical statement with filthy sexual undertones. Later she tells us to "get your leather on" and pants, as if in the throes of passion, "Climb, climb, climb higher". This all plays out over a jittery disco beat, which teases for two-and-a-half minutes before bursting into a life with an joyous eruption of buzzing synths. The result is a saucy electro romp that makes even GaGa seem a tad coy.

That's right, thanks to uber-trendy producer and TV On The Radio mastermind Dave Sitek, Nick Zinner's jagged guitar riffs have been ditched. In their place we get surging, pulsating beats that transform the band into a wholly different beast from the one we heard on 2006's Show Your Bones. Coming off like a smutty Blondie dosed up on red bull, on this form the second incarnation of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs could even outdo the first.