Yeah Yeah Yeahs live at All Points East 2023 (Adam Hampton-Matthews)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs were in London on August 25th.
The ‘Meet Me In The Bathroom’ era of New York rock and roll was the main attraction of All Points East yesterday as Yeah Yeah Yeahs joined The Strokes at the top of the festival’s bill.
The band have been busy on the road this year after their return brought the Cool It Down album a year ago – one which Live4ever summed up as, ‘a distillation of all their strengths’:
“Elsewhere, the juddering, pensive Blacktop lifts lines from Dylan Thomas while aping Julia Holter, while Fleez goes for the two-pronged approach: O sings about dancing to ESG while lifting a hook from one of their songs (Moody). Robotic with probing bass, it’s the sound of Kraftwerk in the club.”
At only eight songs Cool It Down is a slight album, and even the last track is more of a poem as O reflects on the state of the world and ask her son, ‘What I looked like to him. Mars, he said, with a glint in his eye’. Mars follows the desolate disco of Different Today, which places global angst against uplifting, glittering electro-pop.