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Yeah Yeah Yeahs new album It’s Blitz, first single from New York City trio Zero

YEAH YEAH YEAHS The New York City trio are back with a new album “It’s Blitz!”set for release on April 14th
Single “Zero” Now Available; US Live dates to be announced soon

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 by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke as “above all, a textural triumph, a quantum bounce from the brittle jitter and insect-chatter fuzz of the band’s 2001 Yeah Yeah Yeahs EP and 2003’s full-length Fever to Tell. It’s as if the Velvet Underground had gone from the black-crusted minimalism of their first album right to the pop bloom of their fourth, Loaded.” Overseas, NME called it “one of the albums of the decade.” “It’s Blitz!” will be released on 14th April on DGC/Interscope preceded a week prior by single “Zero” – a huge, electronic dance-floor anthem of a song. 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 YYYs 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 will make their eagerly anticipated live show return to the US in the very near future. Dates announced soon!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are Karen O (vocals), Nick Zinner (guitar, keyboard) and Brian Chase (drums).

“It’s Blitz!” track listing & album credits overleaf…

“It’s Blitz!” Track Listing:
1.Zero
Stuart Bogie – Tenor Saxophone
Eric Biondo – Trumpet
2. Heads Will Roll
3. Soft Shock
4. Skeletons
5. Dull Life
6. Shame and Fortune
7. Runaway
Jane Scarpantoni – Cello
Greg Kurstin – Piano
8. Dragon Queen
Tunde Adebimpe – Vocals
Stuart Bogie – Tenor and Baritone Saxophone
Kyp Malone – Tambourine
9. Hysteric
Eric Biondo – Trumpet
Stuart Bogie – Tenor and Baritone Saxophone
10. Little Shadow
Imaad Wasif – Guitar

Check out thier new track “Zero” here: