Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
So the last in my trio of millenium-debutant indie giants' 2013 releases comes from my dearly-beloved Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Following in the wake of a spate of guest appearances ( Santigold's Go ; The Flaming Lips ; David Lynch ) and soundtracking ( The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ; Where the Wild Things Are ), Karen O is faced with the gauntlet of presenting something fresh and exciting as a frontwoman 10 years down the line from their glorious debut. It's a little bit of a face-saving move, really, following the slightly failed attempts to become crossover artists with their poppier 2009 release It's Blitz! They may have been covered by Glee, but they weren't quite covered with sales. Still, the charts' loss is our gain. Album #4 finds the Yeahs embracing a wacky side, if that wasn't made abundantly clear by the terribly unappealing artwork. I'm trying to find positives but everything - the garish font, the weirdly plastic child, and that hair - jus...