Get your leather on

The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs single (Zero) is rather wonderful, don't you think? Startling, yet wonderful. It's a swaggering song full of bold synths and Karen O's sneers. The guitar doesn't even kick in during the first minute.
Show Your Bones was a solid second album, but not all that brilliant. Hopefully, the YYY's third offering (It's Blitz!) will officially be a stonker. Zero has some of the angsty energy that got the band through Fever To Tell in 2003, but it's more mature, more considered. I take this to be a good omen. The garage rock rawness of Fever To Tell was exciting, but you can't maintain that. I guess you could keep pretending, but wouldn't that turn you into Iggy Pop?
One more thing. Below is precocious novelist and Brooklynite, Jonathan Safran Foer.


Please compare him with the YYY's drummer Brian Chase - also a Brooklyn resident - at left below.

The only possible explanation is that THEY ARE THE SAME MAN.