The newest trailer for Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are features a sweet, lullaby-ish number by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ leading lady, a tune similar to one we heard in the recent Wild Things featurette. Check out the trailer above, and catch the film in its entirety in theaters October 16 with plenty of fully listenable Karen O music on the score. (Via The Playlist).

The Flaming Lips are releasing their 12th studio monstrosity later this year and according to a SPIN report, Embryonic features some extra-special guests: MGMT and Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Frontnut Coyne sent some sounds and ideas via e-mail and telephone and in what we’re sure was a flash of glittered genius, something gnarly was born. That something will be sandwiched somewhere amid the many layers of psychedelia Embryonic—a double album which Coyne claims is similar to the Lips’ masterstroke the Soft Bulletin—promises.

—Meryl Natow

“Skeletons” feels bold and anticipatory. When Karen O’s serene voice begins singing (“Love my name/ Love left dry/ Frost or flame/ Skeleton me”), it’s as if she’s preparing for an inevitable surge of energy. After the first verse, we’re introduced to a rapturous percussion that’s ready to explode, only to be brought right back down. Similar to “Maps” before it, “Skeletons” lingers in the area between expectation and release. Yet it does so perfectly, inhabiting a terrain that makes us vulnerable and unsure — Karen O’s sweet singing is our only guide, and she even seems unsure where we’re going. Her use of three-syllable poetic verse (with the exception of “skeleton / me”) only enhances this song’s mystique. It is exact and precise. As Pitchfork’s Ryan Dombal accurately pointed out, Karen O’s ambiguous syntax leaves meaning to the listener. Is she saying “Skeleton Me”, aka invisible, or “Skeleton: me”, aka both the same. Is she saying “love don’t go”, aka love is steadfast, or is she pleading “love, don’t go”? Whichever meaning you project, “Skeletons” is a perfect reintroduction to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
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Last week we told you that Yeah Yeah Yeahs decided to push up the release date of their new album, It’s Blitz!, from its original April release to March 10, after the highly anticipated album leaked onto the internet. Now, the band has released its newest video, “Zero”, off of their upcoming record, and if Karen O’s sassy struts throughout the video can’t convince you to listen to the band’s new album, then we don’t know what will.
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The first official single off of It’s Blitz! is a dance-inspired number that has Karen O telling us to “get our leather on.” As the Yeah Yeah Yeahs front woman told Rolling Stone, the new record is “Less angst and more positivity, man!” Just the cure for the recession doldrums.
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