Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Sacrilege” Single Cover
Just as I was wondering, “where the hell have the Yeah Yeah Yeahs been?” the NYC-based post-alternative rock trio gives us a long-anticipated brand new single, “Sacrilege.”
The track will appear on the upcoming fourth studio album that band lead Karen O dropped hints on in 2011 titled, Mosquito. Set to release on April 16th, the album follows YYY’s 2009 release, It’s Blitz!.
Channeling their old lo-fi, tinny sound and flaunting Karen’s eerie howl, “Sacrilege” ends on the emergence of a powerful 24-piece gospel choir chanting in a capella, “Sacrilege, sacrilege, sacrilege, you say!” Listen below.
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Enlisting production from TV on the Radio‘s Dave Sitek, Nick Launay, and LCD Soundsystem‘s James Murphy, Karen says the album was made with “a shitty drum machine, a shitty sampled keyboard, tons of delay on the vocals.”
If “Sacrilege” is a sign of what to expect for April 16th, Spring 2013′s musical landscape is shaping up to be impressive. The new era for YYY also brings a blonde Karen O, who shocked us with a new doo in this teaser below:
