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| Personnel Nick Zinner vocals guitar keyboards Karen O vocals keyboards Brian Chase vocals drums cymbals percussion Audio Mixer Craig Silvey Recording information Area 52 New York NY DFA Records New York NA Sonic Ranch Tornillo TX Squeak E Clean Studios Echo Parque CA STratosphere Sound New York NY The Square London UK Since Fever to Tell with each album the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have challenged their audience with their changes and Mosquito is no exception A 180 from It s Blitz s flashy electro sheen the band s fourth album downplays synths programmed beats and other gadgetry in favor of drums guitars and a mix of rock and inward-looking ballads that occasionally recalls Show Your Bones Karen O Nick Zinner and Brian Chase reunite with longtime producers David Sitek and Nick Launay - who were honorary members of the band by this point - and they take the trio in any direction they want to go Since Maps some of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs most exciting songs show their vulnerability O sounds full-throated and full-hearted as she sings your sun is my sun on Despair the kind of unabashed love song the band has excelled at since that breakthrough power ballad Likewise Wedding Song - which O actually sang at her nuptials - is genuine and intimate enough to strike a near-universal chord Meanwhile Mosquito s loudest songs are more playfully nostalgic than ferocious which in its own way is in keeping with the album s often reflective tone Area 52 and the title track spin tales about aliens and bloodsucking bugs that are much sillier than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs early days as impressive as O s wail still is there s a campiness to these songs that almost feels like the band is having a fond laugh about when they used to do this all the time Indeed they sound most engaged on Mosquito when they re somewhere between its extremes The lead track Sacrilege showcases their way with a slow-building epic and plays li |
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