Track Listing 1. Bang 2. Mystery Girl 3. Art Star 4. Miles Away 5. Our Time 6. Pin (Remix) 7. Machine 8. Graveyard
| Details | | Distributor: | MSI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | n/a | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Karen O (vocals); Nick Zinner (guitar); Brian Chase (drums). Recorded at The Funhouse, New York, New York. This Japanese import version of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' self-titled debut EP features three additional tracks that originally appeared on the Touch & Go-released single for the band's song "Machine." Karen O makes an entrance worthy of Warhol or Lee Van Cleef on her Yeah Yeah Yeahs debut EP, introducing herself on "Bang" with an unmistakably sexual growl, a rock-&-roll hunger somewhere between Mick Jagger and Jon Spencer. It's the sort of game-changing bravado that cannot be ignored. And when she primally screams about sex and desperation and madness over sonic blasts of noise and melody that conjure up second wave punk and new wave and early hardcore, often on the same song, it's exciting, almost stunning; it's clearly one of the more important EPs of its era.
Editorial Reviews ...The YYY's are New York City's answer to self-indulgence. This EP will spoil and tease you hard. CMJ (07/08/2002)
Ranked #28 on Spin's list of 2002's Albums of the Year - ...Drums whip-crack, surf-punk guitars claw your back like chipped nails, and vocalist/train wreck Karen O. howls like a cat in heat on a hot Brooklyn roof. Spin (01/01/2003)
3 stars out of 5 - ...A punk-rock dream come true...you should get a jolt out of every song....It's a truly inspirational sound, as well as a headache-inducing racket... Rolling Stone (08/08/2002)
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