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It's Blitz!

November 23, 2023

It's Blitz! is the third studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on March 6, 2009, by Interscope Records. It was originally set for release on April 13, 2009. However, after being leaked to the Internet on February 22,[4] the release date was pushed forward to March 9 for the digital version and March 31 for the physical version.[5]

It's Blitz!
Studio album by
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
ReleasedMarch 6, 2009 (2009-03-06)
Recorded2008
Studio
Genre
Length41:49
Label
Producer
Yeah Yeah Yeahs chronology
Is Is
(2007) 		It's Blitz!
(2009) 		iTunes Originals: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
(2009)
Singles from It's Blitz!
  1. "Zero"
    Released: February 24, 2009
  2. "Heads Will Roll"
    Released: June 29, 2009
  3. "Skeletons"
    Released: February 1, 2010

The album was produced by Nick Launay, along with TV on the Radio's David Andrew Sitek.[6] It spawned three singles: "Zero", "Heads Will Roll", and "Skeletons". It's Blitz! was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards.[7]

Recording edit

"When Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner packed his bang for the band's trip to the studio…" wrote John Doran in Classic Rock, "he made a random decision that would completely change their direction. The vintage ARP synthesizer that he carried with him to the Tornillo studios in the west Texan desert was supposed to provide downtime entertainment, but ended up being the defining noise on It's Blitz!."[8]

According to coproducer Nick Launay, the album was unusual for being largely written and created in the studio at a time when record labels had cut back considerably on production budgets. The few songs the band took to the first sessions were altered significantly.[9]

Launay described a typical session: "Brian [Chase] would play lots of different drumbeats and we'd record it, chop it up and then make a groove loop out of it. Nick [Zinner] would then just jam to it, and we'd come up with an interesting rhythm part. Karen [O] would listen to that and come up with a vocal melody and then suddenly everything would fall into place."[9]

During the sessions – which took place over several months in 2008 – there were numerous breaks "to get inspired".[9]

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.2/10[10]
Metacritic82/100[11]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [12]
Classic Rock          [13]
The Daily Telegraph     [14]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[15]
The Guardian     [16]
Los Angeles Times    [17]
MSN Music (Consumer Guide)A−[18]
NME8/10[19]
Pitchfork8.1/10[20]
Rolling Stone     [21]
Spin9/10[2]

It's Blitz! received universal acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 82, based on 36 reviews.[11]

The Guardian's Caroline Sullivan declared the "glittery new disco sound suits them very well. It's all cool, brittle catchiness, with a debt owed to Eat to the Beat-era Blondie".[16]

Emily Mackay of NME wrote, "It's Blitz!'s heartfelt love letter to the transcendent possibilities of the dancefloor is an unexpectedly emphatic reassertion of why Yeah Yeah Yeahs are one of the most exciting bands of this decade."[19]

Spin's Charles Aaron called it "the alternative pop album of the decade – one that imbues The Killers' Hot Fuss and MGMT's Oracular Spectacular with a remarkable emotional depth and finesse".[2]

Theon Weber of The Village Voice said Karen O "isn't revealed to us through the record's lyrics, which are as gnomic as ever, but through attitudes, tones, put-on sneers, and audible grins."[22]

Mojo awarded it four stars out of five and wrote that the band "managed to mix the human and the electronic, the emotional and the artsy, the fashion-forward and the oddly retro."[23]

Blender also gave the album four stars out of five and hailed it as "the sound of a band reborn with new momentum, and on an album that requires dancing, the message is clear: It doesn't matter where you came from. Just keep moving."[24]

Clash commented that the trio had grown without distancing themselves from what made their name: "The album proves that they can provide epic music with personal themes, that YYYs can expand without losing what made us fall for them in the first place".[25]

Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that the band "grapple with separation and need, using dance beats to suggest the compulsive pleasure seeking that tries to drown out loneliness", and he commended their musical direction, stating, "The band is echoing the evolution of postpunk, from dogmatic austerity to technologically assisted".[26]

Uncut's April Long scored it four out of five and praised its "spirit of experimentation", stating "What unifies them is a warm romanticism that runs throughout, edging out Karen's blatant eroticism of yore – even though there are more come-downs than come-ons, every song seems to glow from within".[27]

Accolades edit

Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die — [28]
The A.V. Club The Top 25 Albums of 2009 20 [29]
Billboard Top 10 Albums of 2009 2 [30]
Clash Top 40 Albums of 2009 3 [31]
Consequence of Sound The Top 100 Albums of 2009 6 [32]
Drowned in Sound Top 50 Albums of 2009 3 [33]
Entertainment Weekly 10 Best (and 5 Worst) Albums of 2009 Best Rock Album [34]
The Guardian Albums of 2009 10 [35]
Mojo Top 50 Albums of 2009 10 [36]
musicOMH Top 50 Best Albums of 2009 6 [37]
NME 50 Best Albums of 2009 3 [38]
Paste The 25 Best Albums of 2009 23 [39]
Pitchfork The Top 50 Albums of 2009 12 [40]
PopMatters The Best 60 Albums of 2009 11 [41]
Q 50 Best Albums of 2009 3 [36]
Rhapsody The 25 Best Albums of 2009 12 [42]
Rolling Stone The 25 Best Albums of 2009 20 [43]
Slant Magazine The 25 Best Albums of 2009 2 [44]
Spin The 40 Best Albums of 2009 2 [45]
Spin 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years 118 [46]
Uncut 50 Best Albums of 2009 9 [36]
The Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll: The Top 25 Albums of 2009 4 [47]

Commercial performance edit

It's Blitz! debuted at number 32 on the Billboard 200, selling 13,000 digital copies in its first week.[48] Following its physical release, the album climbed to a new peak position of number 22 in its fourth week on the chart, selling 22,000 copies.[49] As of October 2009, it had sold 184,000 copies in United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[50] The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number nine with first-week sales of 18,054 copies.[51]

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

No.TitleLength
1."Zero"4:25
2."Heads Will Roll"3:41
3."Soft Shock"3:53
4."Skeletons"5:02
5."Dull Life"4:08
6."Shame and Fortune"3:31
7."Runaway"5:13
8."Dragon Queen"4:02
9."Hysteric"3:50
10."Little Shadow"3:57
Deluxe edition bonus tracks[52]
No.TitleLength
11."Soft Shock" (acoustic)3:25
12."Skeletons" (acoustic)3:29
13."Hysteric" (acoustic)3:51
14."Little Shadow" (acoustic)2:53
iTunes Store bonus tracks[53]
No.TitleLength
11."Faces"3:33
12."Clap Song" (pre-order only)3:26
Japanese edition bonus tracks[54]
No.TitleLength
11."Hysteric" (acoustic)3:51
12."Soft Shock" (acoustic)3:25
13."Little Shadow" (acoustic)2:53
14."Skeletons" (acoustic)3:29
15."Faces"3:33

Personnel edit

Credits adapted from the liner notes of It's Blitz![55]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs edit

Additional musicians edit

Technical edit

  • Nick Launay – production, recording
  • David Andrew Sitek – production (tracks 1–4, 8, 9); additional production (tracks 5); recording (all tracks)
  • Dan Huron – recording
  • Aaron Dembe – engineering assistance
  • Alyssa Pittaluga – engineering assistance
  • Atom – engineering assistance
  • Charles Godfrey – engineering assistance
  • Chris Coady – engineering assistance
  • Chris Moore – engineering assistance
  • Justin Leeah – engineering assistance
  • Mike Laza – engineering assistance
  • Spike Stent – mixing at Chalice Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)
  • Matty Green – mixing assistance
  • Chris Kasych – mixing assistance
  • Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York City)

Artwork edit

  • Karen O – art direction
  • Seb Marling – art direction
  • Urs Fischer – art direction, cover photography, inside photography
  • Autumn de Wilde – live photography (band)
  • David Belisle – live photography (Karen and Brian)
  • Eric Uhlir – live photography (Nick)

Charts edit

Certifications edit

Certifications for It's Blitz!
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[80] Gold 35,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[81] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[82] Gold 500,000‡

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history edit

Release dates and formats for It's Blitz!
Region Date Format Edition Label Ref(s)
Australia March 6, 2009 Digital download Standard Universal [83]
United Kingdom March 8, 2009
  • Standard
  • deluxe
 Polydor [84][85]
United States March 10, 2009
[86][87]
Germany March 13, 2009 Standard Universal [88]
United States March 31, 2009 CD
  • Standard
  • deluxe
  • Dress Up
  • DGC
  • Interscope
 [52][89]
Australia April 3, 2009 Universal [90]
Digital download Deluxe [83]
Germany CD
  • Standard
  • deluxe
 [91][92]
LP Standard [93]
Digital download Deluxe [94]
United Kingdom April 6, 2009 CD
  • Standard
  • deluxe
 Polydor [95][96]
LP Standard [97]
United States April 14, 2009
  • Dress Up
  • DGC
  • Interscope
 [98]
Japan April 15, 2009
  • CD
  • digital download
 Japan standard Universal [54][99]

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It s Blitz is the third studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs released on March 6 2009 by Interscope Records It was originally set for release on April 13 2009 However after being leaked to the Internet on February 22 4 the release date was pushed forward to March 9 for the digital version and March 31 for the physical version 5 It s Blitz Studio album by Yeah Yeah YeahsReleasedMarch 6 2009 2009 03 06 Recorded2008StudioSonic Ranch Tornillo Texas Long View Farm North Brookfield Massachusetts Stay Gold Brooklyn New York The Boat Silver Lake California Seedy Underbelly Valley Village California GenreSynth punk 1 alternative pop 2 synth pop 3 pop rock 3 Length41 49LabelDress Up DGC InterscopeProducerNick Launay David Andrew SitekYeah Yeah Yeahs chronologyIs Is 2007 It s Blitz 2009 iTunes Originals Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2009 Singles from It s Blitz Zero Released February 24 2009 Heads Will Roll Released June 29 2009 Skeletons Released February 1 2010The album was produced by Nick Launay along with TV on the Radio s David Andrew Sitek 6 It spawned three singles Zero Heads Will Roll and Skeletons It s Blitz was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards 7 Contents 1 Recording 2 Critical reception 2 1 Accolades 3 Commercial performance 4 Track listing 5 Personnel 5 1 Yeah Yeah Yeahs 5 2 Additional musicians 5 3 Technical 5 4 Artwork 6 Charts 6 1 Weekly charts 6 2 Year end charts 7 Certifications 8 Release history 9 ReferencesRecording edit When Yeah Yeah Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner packed his bang for the band s trip to the studio wrote John Doran in Classic Rock he made a random decision that would completely change their direction The vintage ARP synthesizer that he carried with him to the Tornillo studios in the west Texan desert was supposed to provide downtime entertainment but ended up being the defining noise on It s Blitz 8 According to coproducer Nick Launay the album was unusual for being largely written and created in the studio at a time when record labels had cut back considerably on production budgets The few songs the band took to the first sessions were altered significantly 9 Launay described a typical session Brian Chase would play lots of different drumbeats and we d record it chop it up and then make a groove loop out of it Nick Zinner would then just jam to it and we d come up with an interesting rhythm part Karen O would listen to that and come up with a vocal melody and then suddenly everything would fall into place 9 During the sessions which took place over several months in 2008 there were numerous breaks to get inspired 9 Critical reception editProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingAnyDecentMusic 8 2 10 10 Metacritic82 100 11 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 12 Classic Rock nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 13 The Daily Telegraph nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 14 Entertainment WeeklyB 15 The Guardian nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 16 Los Angeles Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 17 MSN Music Consumer Guide A 18 NME8 10 19 Pitchfork8 1 10 20 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 21 Spin9 10 2 It s Blitz received universal acclaim from music critics At Metacritic which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications the album received an average score of 82 based on 36 reviews 11 The Guardian s Caroline Sullivan declared the glittery new disco sound suits them very well It s all cool brittle catchiness with a debt owed to Eat to the Beat era Blondie 16 Emily Mackay of NME wrote It s Blitz s heartfelt love letter to the transcendent possibilities of the dancefloor is an unexpectedly emphatic reassertion of why Yeah Yeah Yeahs are one of the most exciting bands of this decade 19 Spin s Charles Aaron called it the alternative pop album of the decade one that imbues The Killers Hot Fuss and MGMT s Oracular Spectacular with a remarkable emotional depth and finesse 2 Theon Weber of The Village Voice said Karen O isn t revealed to us through the record s lyrics which are as gnomic as ever but through attitudes tones put on sneers and audible grins 22 Mojo awarded it four stars out of five and wrote that the band managed to mix the human and the electronic the emotional and the artsy the fashion forward and the oddly retro 23 Blender also gave the album four stars out of five and hailed it as the sound of a band reborn with new momentum and on an album that requires dancing the message is clear It doesn t matter where you came from Just keep moving 24 Clash commented that the trio had grown without distancing themselves from what made their name The album proves that they can provide epic music with personal themes that YYYs can expand without losing what made us fall for them in the first place 25 Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that the band grapple with separation and need using dance beats to suggest the compulsive pleasure seeking that tries to drown out loneliness and he commended their musical direction stating The band is echoing the evolution of postpunk from dogmatic austerity to technologically assisted 26 Uncut s April Long scored it four out of five and praised its spirit of experimentation stating What unifies them is a warm romanticism that runs throughout edging out Karen s blatant eroticism of yore even though there are more come downs than come ons every song seems to glow from within 27 Accolades edit Publication Accolade Rank Ref 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 28 The A V Club The Top 25 Albums of 2009 20 29 Billboard Top 10 Albums of 2009 2 30 Clash Top 40 Albums of 2009 3 31 Consequence of Sound The Top 100 Albums of 2009 6 32 Drowned in Sound Top 50 Albums of 2009 3 33 Entertainment Weekly 10 Best and 5 Worst Albums of 2009 Best Rock Album 34 The Guardian Albums of 2009 10 35 Mojo Top 50 Albums of 2009 10 36 musicOMH Top 50 Best Albums of 2009 6 37 NME 50 Best Albums of 2009 3 38 Paste The 25 Best Albums of 2009 23 39 Pitchfork The Top 50 Albums of 2009 12 40 PopMatters The Best 60 Albums of 2009 11 41 Q 50 Best Albums of 2009 3 36 Rhapsody The 25 Best Albums of 2009 12 42 Rolling Stone The 25 Best Albums of 2009 20 43 Slant Magazine The 25 Best Albums of 2009 2 44 Spin The 40 Best Albums of 2009 2 45 Spin 125 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years 118 46 Uncut 50 Best Albums of 2009 9 36 The Village Voice Pazz amp Jop Critics Poll The Top 25 Albums of 2009 4 47 Commercial performance editIt s Blitz debuted at number 32 on the Billboard 200 selling 13 000 digital copies in its first week 48 Following its physical release the album climbed to a new peak position of number 22 in its fourth week on the chart selling 22 000 copies 49 As of October 2009 it had sold 184 000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan 50 The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number nine with first week sales of 18 054 copies 51 Track listing editAll tracks are written by Yeah Yeah YeahsNo TitleLength1 Zero 4 252 Heads Will Roll 3 413 Soft Shock 3 534 Skeletons 5 025 Dull Life 4 086 Shame and Fortune 3 317 Runaway 5 138 Dragon Queen 4 029 Hysteric 3 5010 Little Shadow 3 57 Deluxe edition bonus tracks 52 No TitleLength11 Soft Shock acoustic 3 2512 Skeletons acoustic 3 2913 Hysteric acoustic 3 5114 Little Shadow acoustic 2 53 iTunes Store bonus tracks 53 No TitleLength11 Faces 3 3312 Clap Song pre order only 3 26 Japanese edition bonus tracks 54 No TitleLength11 Hysteric acoustic 3 5112 Soft Shock acoustic 3 2513 Little Shadow acoustic 2 5314 Skeletons acoustic 3 2915 Faces 3 33Personnel editCredits adapted from the liner notes of It s Blitz 55 Yeah Yeah Yeahs edit Brian Chase drums cymbals percussion Karen O vocals Nick Zinner guitars keyboards drum machine bassAdditional musicians edit Stuart Bogie tenor saxophone tracks 1 8 9 baritone saxophone tracks 8 9 Eric Biondo trumpet tracks 1 9 Greg Kurstin piano track 7 Jane Scarpantoni cello track 7 Tunde Adebimpe vocals track 8 Imaad Wasif guitar track 10 Technical edit Nick Launay production recording David Andrew Sitek production tracks 1 4 8 9 additional production tracks 5 recording all tracks Dan Huron recording Aaron Dembe engineering assistance Alyssa Pittaluga engineering assistance Atom engineering assistance Charles Godfrey engineering assistance Chris Coady engineering assistance Chris Moore engineering assistance Justin Leeah engineering assistance Mike Laza engineering assistance Spike Stent mixing at Chalice Recording Studios Los Angeles California Matty Green mixing assistance Chris Kasych mixing assistance Ted Jensen mastering at Sterling Sound New York City Artwork edit Karen O art direction Seb Marling art direction Urs Fischer art direction cover photography inside photography Autumn de Wilde live photography band David Belisle live photography Karen and Brian Eric Uhlir live photography Nick Charts editWeekly charts edit Weekly chart performance for It s Blitz Chart 2009 PeakpositionAustralian Albums ARIA 56 8Austrian Albums O3 Austria 57 61Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 58 23Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 59 83Canadian Albums Billboard 60 18Danish Albums Hitlisten 61 40European Albums Billboard 62 32French Albums SNEP 63 160German Albums Offizielle Top 100 64 71Irish Albums IRMA 65 10Italian Albums FIMI 66 91Japanese Albums Oricon 67 62Mexican Albums Top 100 Mexico 68 56New Zealand Albums RMNZ 69 22Norwegian Albums VG lista 70 12Scottish Albums OCC 71 11Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 72 85UK Albums OCC 73 9US Billboard 200 74 22US Top Alternative Albums Billboard 75 4US Top Rock Albums Billboard 76 5 Year end charts edit Year end chart performance for It s Blitz Chart 2009 PositionUK Albums OCC 77 164US Billboard 200 78 192US Top Alternative Albums Billboard 79 43Certifications editCertifications for It s Blitz Region Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 80 Gold 35 000 United Kingdom BPI 81 Gold 100 000 United States RIAA 82 Gold 500 000 Shipments figures based on certification alone Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Release history editRelease dates and formats for It s Blitz Region Date Format Edition Label Ref s Australia March 6 2009 Digital download Standard Universal 83 United Kingdom March 8 2009 Standarddeluxe Polydor 84 85 United States March 10 2009 Dress UpDGCInterscope 86 87 Germany March 13 2009 Standard Universal 88 United States March 31 2009 CD Standarddeluxe Dress UpDGCInterscope 52 89 Australia April 3 2009 Universal 90 Digital download Deluxe 83 Germany CD Standarddeluxe 91 92 LP Standard 93 Digital download Deluxe 94 United Kingdom April 6 2009 CD Standarddeluxe Polydor 95 96 LP Standard 97 United States April 14 2009 Dress UpDGCInterscope 98 Japan April 15 2009 CDdigital download Japan standard Universal 54 99 References edit Lipshutz Jason March 23 2011 Top 10 Garage Rock Revival Bands Where Are They Now Billboard Retrieved July 17 2014 a b c Aaron Charles May 2009 Party at Ground Zero Spin Vol 25 no 5 pp 83 84 ISSN 0886 3032 via Google Books a b Gray Julia June 1 2018 The 10 Best Yeah Yeah Yeahs Songs Stereogum Retrieved May 17 2023 It s Blitz was sparkly and airy flourishing with synth pop and pop rock potential Dit it leak Did it Leak Archived from the original on April 17 2009 Retrieved April 15 2009 Yeah Yeah Yeahs to release album early due to leak NME March 3 2009 Retrieved January 12 2018 Goodman William February 12 2009 Exclusive Yeah Yeah Yeahs Talk New Album Spin Retrieved January 8 2016 Grammy 2010 Winners List Billboard January 31 2010 Retrieved January 8 2016 Doran John June 2009 Reviews Classic Rock 132 82 a b c Bouwman Kimbel November 16 2009 Interview with Nick Launay HitQuarters Archived from the original on February 29 2012 Retrieved November 17 2009 It s Blitz by Yeah Yeah Yeahs reviews AnyDecentMusic Retrieved January 8 2020 a b Reviews for It s Blitz by Yeah Yeah Yeahs Metacritic Retrieved November 19 2009 Phares Heather It s 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