Brooklyn trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs are celebrating their tenth anniversary in style with the forthcoming release of new album ‘It’s Blitz’.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs formed ten years ago, rehearsing in the run down Tu Casa studios in New York. Yet a decade on the group stand as one of the most influential American groups of their generation, capable of filling column inches as well as arenas.
The band have been working on their forthcoming album ‘It’s Blitz’ (REVIEW!) which controversially features synths and shies away from Yeah Yeah Yeahs trademark sound. However in a new interview with the BBC the group were keen to reminisce.
“That’s really overwhelming when you think about it like that,” claims guitarist Nick Zinner. “Just in the sense that a lot of everyone’s favourite bands are only around for four or five years – so ten years feels like an absolute eternity.”
“Only just in the last year and a half or so has it really started sinking in the amount of gratitude that I have for being in this band and the places that it has taken us” claimed lead singer Karen O.
“The snapshot of us on the Great Wall of China – the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the Great Wall of China! – was just a career landmark thing for us.”
However the group were keen to look to the future, and praised their producer Dave Sitek. Sitek also produced TV On The Radio’s new album ‘Dear Science’ praised by many as their finest work to date.
“I think that he came to a place with his last record Dear Science which feels similar to where we’ve come with this record” says Karen O.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ new album ‘It’s Blitz’ is available digitally now, with a physical release due later in the Spring.
