Yeah Yeah Yeahs made me cooler in high school. After trudging through my freshman year listening to R.E.M. and Suzanne Vega, I remember reading about a new band on my friend's LiveJournal—no joke. After picking up Fever to Tell a few weeks later, I was hooked.
Not only did Yeah Yeah Yeahs make me cooler, but I matured as they did. From their unashamed riot grrl sensibility on Fever to Tell to their indie-rock debut on Show Your Bones, they nudged me along in my own painful ascendance to coolness.
This year, It's Blitz! cut back on the latent self-consciousness of Show Your Bones without rejecting their newfound cred as screeching dance track spinners. Similarly, I tried to cut back on some of my own self-consciousness and danced my ass off to ""Zero"" and ""Heads Will Roll.""
It's Blitz! showcases the best of Yeah Yeah Yeahs' musical spectrum. The album reaches lonesome depths in songs like ""Little Shadow"" without sounding self-pitying, while heavier tracks like ""Shame and Fortune"" don't get bogged down in cheap vamping.
2009 was good to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and It's Blitz! showed they could bask in the success without letting their guard down.
