At the beginning of 2008, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs announced via their official myspace page that they are in the process of recording a new album, the follow-up to 2006’s Show Your Bones. Since then the band has posted sporadic updates to the blog on their official site, most recently from Texas where they are currently in the studio. Drummer Brian Chase rather cryptically wrote on the blog last Tuesday: “It’s not surprising we’ve heard so many stories of [the area] bringing out/breeding a misfit outlaw spirit, but of it also freeing the imagination and redefining what’s taken for granted. Creativity reveals endless possibilities and options, but you’re still left with you (we’re still left with us) in the end.”
While we’re waiting for new material, here are a couple of key tracks from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs for those less familiar with their stuff (their myspace page also offers a few additional tracks to sample) :
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Way Out” (Show Your Bones)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Date With the Night” (Fever to Tell)
In related news, lead singer Karen O is reportedly writing the majority of the music for the soundtrack of the live-action movie adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, to be directed by Spike Jonze (who directed Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and a variety of insanely inventive music videos, including the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ video for “Y Control”) with a script written by Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius). If that’s not intriguing enough, the cast will include Cather
ine Keener, James Gandolfini and Six Feet Under’s Lauren Ambrose. Now the other shoe drops, of course: the film was set to be released later this year, Warner Bros. has reportedly pushed the movie’s release date into October 2009 for unspecified reasons with rumors that the studio is unhappy with the somewhat dark tone of the film and hopes to reshoot the majority of it, possibly with a new director (though this hasn’t been confirmed, the delay of over a year seems to support the theory).