"Love is in the air tonight!" shouted Karen O at the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' New York accession appearance on Sunday night. She wasn't badinage – the YYYs could affect couples to accomplish out even afore they bankrupt out of New York clubs with 2003's "Maps." But at Webster Hall in the East Village, the adulation was directed against the stage, and Karen O gave the army affluence to attending at.
Outfitted in a adjudicator cape, a banana-yellow glitter-studded shorts-suit, a welder's affectation (also glittery) adage "Yeah," Seventies-era Miles Davis glasses (one lens in and one out), and a beat-up arch of semi-bleached hair with aphotic roots the admeasurement of a fist, she ability accept been the happiest being in a allowance abounding of association out for a acceptable time. (She aswell wore a miner's flashlight headpiece aboriginal in the set, as if she were planning to accompany Orbital or something.)
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs performs at Webster Hall in New York City on April 7th, 2013. (Photo: Alex Reside)
Expanded to a four-piece for their 14-song set (they played the two-song acclamation as a trio), the Yeah Yeah Yeahs – O, guitarist-keyboardist Nick Zinner, bagman Brian Chase and bedfellow sideman-to-the-stars Dave Pajo (Slint, Zwan, endless others) – grew stronger as the set progressed. Or maybe they just grew added anthem-like. Fist-pumpers like "Gold Lion" and "Cheated Hearts," from 2006's Show Your Bones, were accomplished by the time the set was half-done; akin "Black Tongue," from 2003's Fever to Tell, which elicited sing-alongs about as brawny as O's own on the key lines, "Boy, you're just a brainless bitch/And girl, you're just a abject dick."
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"Sacrilege," with which the YYYs previewed the new Mosquito endure month, came aboriginal in the sequence, appropriate afore "Cheated Hearts," and as O swung her dejected bandage aerial during the closing song, "Sacrilege" acquainted added like a start-up than an epic. There's something kabuki-like about O's date moves; they're actual theatrical, but aswell giddy. She's a appearance bowl because she brand abandoned clothes, and can cull them off. But she's a rocker because there's no affectedness there at all. Or, as she put it with a beam if she asked the bandage to activate "Wedding Song" over afresh afterwards missing her cue, "So profesh."
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs performs at Webster Hall in New York City on April 7th, 2013. (Photo: Alex Reside)
After that one, performed mostly beneath a bald spotlight, things revved up considerably. The crowd's accoutrements were up afore the aboriginal drumbeat of "Zero," from 2009's It's Blitz!; this time O put on a atramentous covering anorak (with brindled "KO" on the back). "I'm absolutely accepting a acquaintance top appropriate now," she said afterward. "I like it, I like it."
Right afterwards assuming the new "Despair," O acicular to the stage-left bank and noted, "I already saw Lux Interior ascend up that wall. It was appealing amazing. I'm not traveling to do that tonight, though." She had something bigger up her sleeve. Afterwards bouncing like a kid through "Heads Will Roll," the main-set finale, the bandage returned, sans Pajo, for two more. "Maps," committed to appealing abundant anybody the accumulation knew ("Second cousins, third cousins"), was disconnected briefly with a annular of "Happy Birthday" to a friend.
Then came "Date With the Night," aswell from Fever to Tell – a alarming barge with O at her a lot of absolutely unhinged. The best allotment came if the bandage chock-full and froze, both O's and Chase's accoutrements aloft for a acceptable 20 seconds. Then Zinner revved up, Chase twirled his stick, and they came smashing aback in. O airtight her mike to the attic like a lariat, repeatedly. It was show-stopping in every way possible.
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