“The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are New York rock royalty — hell, they’re rock royalty, period”. -Vulture
Coming off the recent release of their first album in nine years, the critically acclaimed Cool It Down (out now via Secretly Canadian), and two now-legendary shows at NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium and LA’s Hollywood Bowl, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs release the new video for album standout track ‘Wolf,’ a song NPR said was “primed to soundtrack a Hollywood car chase.”
Director Allie Avital (Olivia Rodrigo, Moses Sumney) translates the single’s primal energy into a video starring Severance’s Britt Lower.
Karen O spoke about the video saying, “It was our great fortune to collaborate with the powerhouses Allie and Brit on this video for ‘Wolf.’ Allie casts a spell with the gorgeous world she weaves- always with teeth that bite, and Britt embodies all the contradictions in the themes of ‘Wolf,’ so enamored with her performance that’s got as much heaven as it does hell. We were beside ourselves with excitement when Allie cast Brit as the lead in the video, YYYs are serious nerds for Severance, what luck when the stars align.”
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have also shared a new remix of the single by German producer Boys Noize. Listen HERE.
On September 30th the Yeah Yeah Yeahs returned with their fifth studio effort, Cool It Down. Joining forces with producers Dave Sitek, Justin Raisen and Andrew Wyatt, and mixed by Shawn Everett, the eight-track collection is an expert distillation of the band’s best gifts that impel you to move, cry, and listen closely and is bound to be a landmark in their catalog. Cool It Down is available to buy/stream HERE.
MORE VIDEOS FROM COOL IT DOWN:
WATCH VIDEO FOR ‘SPITTING OFF THE EDGE OF THE WORLD’ FEAT. PERFUME GENIUS HERE
WATCH “BURNING” VIDEO HERE
WATCH “BURNING” ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! HERE
PRAISE FOR COOL IT DOWN
“An expansive album that dares to imagine a bold, fresh future.” – The New York Times
“Cool It Down strikes a perfect balance for Yeah Yeah Yeahs—this is a more mature and approachable version of the band befitting their status as middle-aged lifers, but it’s every bit as vibrant and alive as the music of the group’s youth.” – Wall Street Journal
“Those who’ve been following its fearless evolution — its growing embrace of silky production and meditative stillness, through which the band has grown while so many other early-2000s darlings faltered — this is both an intuitive and exhilarating step forward.” – NPR
“Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fight Hard Times With Raw Beauty on ‘Cool It Down’” – Rolling Stone
“Yeah Yeah Yeahs make a thunderous return with Cool It Down, an album filled with power
ballad after power ballad of pure, otherworldly gloom-disco sludge for dark days.” – Paste
“Expansive, ambitious, and eclectic” – Consequence
“All wrapped up in eight songs (or rather, seven songs and an epitaph), the record is austere in the way a photograph of the night sky is: deceptively simple, intrinsically grave, and necessarily wondrous.” – NYLON
“With Cool It Down, it officially feels like the start of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs new era” – Brooklyn Vegan
