Yeah Yeah Yeahs: 'Heads Will Roll'

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When Yeah Yeah Yeahs released 'Zero' as the teaser for their third album It's Blitz!, it was hard not to feel concerned. Though a pleasant enough slice of electropop and a necessary shift from 2006's guitar-heavy Show Your Bones, it didn't grab you the way a lead single should. If that was the catchiest song on the album, the band's tremendous early spark would seem to have gone AWOL. Thankfully, follow-up 'Heads Will Roll' makes a mockery of those worries.

Its chord changes may mimic Public Image Ltd's 1983 single 'This Is Not A Love Song', but while Johnny Lydon and co. used that song to rib critics who attacked their newfound commercialism, Yeah Yeah Yeahs have recorded a much less sarcastic and unambiguous floor-filler. Instead their lyrics offer some delightfully futuristic-sounding nonsense ("Dripping with alchemy / Shiver stop shivering / The glitter's all wet / You're all chrome"), which perfectly suit the combination of Karen O's distinctive squall and the euphoric synth and guitar backing.


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