Yeah Yeah Yeahs release a video for “Blacktop,” a stand-out from their GRAMMY nominated 2022 album, Cool It Down, out now via Secretly Canadian.
“‘Blacktop’ stuck out to me early on, the demo was very stripped down instrumentally and emotionally. It was a step towards what radical closeness feels like after a long separation,” Karen O explains. “Each record has one of these diamonds in the rough that just feels like flying to me. It felt right to keep the video as stripped down and dare I say beautiful in its naïveté. David Black put us in front of his 70s analog video camera with the intention to pull stills for band shots. He had me sing to ‘Blacktop’ before I had even memorized the lyrics, I thought I knew the song by heart but it felt like an introduction, like meeting it for the first time. It wasn’t intended to end up as a video and as a return to the earliest visuals from the record it completes a circle, we’re so happy we have it, a simple layered performance for a deceptively simple song. We hope you enjoy.”
“The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are New York rock royalty — hell, they’re rock royalty, period.” –Vulture
“Both an intuitive and exhilarating step forward.” -NPR
“Every bit as vibrant and alive as the music of the group’s youth.” –Wall Street Journal
“An expansive album that dares to imagine a bold, fresh future.” –The New York Times
“In every expansive leap, Yeah Yeah Yeahs reaffirm their magnetic devotion to unearthing vulnerability. It’s the magic key to their evergreen formula of amplified tenderness, and hearing them unlock a new passageway is a compelling reward all its own.” -Pitchfork
