A rumbling and ominous piano riff opens this track and plays throughout, a much darker effort than perhaps we’re used to expect from the Swedes. Aye, there’s no whistling to be had here.
I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who hates old-skool, retro, 8-bit keyboards. I mean, if they sounded good in the first place, nobody would’ve bothered inventing better sounding ones for the last 20-odd years. What I’m trying to say is that there was no ‘golden age’ of music that sounded like Atari computer [...]
Despite the disturbing absence of a question mark in the title, (to be honest, it’s pretty much the reason they’re only getting 4 out of 5) this is a beautifully rousing track which stays with you from the first play.
“Off, off, off with your head! Dance, dance, dance ’til you’re dead!” If you’re anything like me and, of course, Sophie Ellis Bextor, then you probably like to commit your murders on the dancefloor. And there’s no better tune to commit a murder to than this charming little ditty from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Broken Records visited Aberdeen as part of a short UK tour to warm up for this summer’s festival appearances. Much has been made of the Edinburgh eight (seven? six? nine? Look, there’s loads of them, OK?) piece in recent times and the played a set unsurprisingly heavily laden from debut album ‘Until The Earth Begins [...]
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