Just like the tears which roll down Karen O’s face in the Maps music video there’s no denying the authenticity of emotion on show. The raging bellows of her band endeavours are shed in favour of songs more in line with her work on the Where the Wild Things Are and Her soundtracks. The throes of passion, the madness and wretchedness of the crush are wrangled with throughout until ending with a defiant chuckle in "Singalong."įor the Karen O completest and Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs fan Crush Songs provides interesting insight into her world but it is not an essential addition for the casual collector. Frustration is capably thrust about in "Body", which utilises white noise and screams. This is an achingly irresistible and honest time capsule of heartbreak and obsession.
The brevity of the songs communicate the hasty nature of infatuation and highlight unformed thoughts.
Recorded in private over 2006-2007 after a break-up with Spike Jonze the year previously, the album leaves the listener to ponder not only her mind-set at that time but the reasoning for making this.
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Sore subjects and soured romance are dwelled upon with a mixture of raw intensity and dreamy contemplations. Karen O’s first solo outing is an intimate confessional full of short, lo-fi, angst filled songs which mark a period in her life when she wasn’t sure I’d ever fall in love again. Swiftly melting into "Rapt" with lyrics “Do I need another habit like you?”, she opines the downsides of attraction whilst shrieking alongside acoustic guitar. Quite obviously in a world of pain, longing and regret, Karen O’s croaky vocals display a thoughtful yet vicious melancholy which enchants from the opening song "Ooo". It’s wild because ‘The Moon Song’ was written and recorded in the most humble of circumstances at my dining room table, a few paces away from the couch I read the script for Her for the first time.Released under Julian Casablanca’s label Cult, and accompanied by a tour of small gigs, the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs' extraordinary front woman is currently showing no signs of despair. “I had zero clue! To say this was unexpected is an understatement. “Karen is an all-time great.”Įarlier this year, Karen O performed “Moon Song” on the Academy Awards but lost the trophy to the irrepressible Disney song “Frozen,” but judging from what she told Rolling Stone in January before the show, it was an honor to be nominated. “So excited, lucky and proud to be involved with such a classic album – I just wanna listen to it all day,” Casablancas said in a statement. The singer recorded the album in 20 in her bedroom, with every song containing the warbled, lo-fi sound of “Moon Song.” The record’s artwork will feature drawings the singer made alongside handwritten lyrics and will first be released on limited-edition vinyl before its standard vinyl, CD and digital releases. They are the soundtrack to what was an ever-continuing love crusade. These songs were written and recorded in private around this time. “I wasn’t sure I’d ever fall in love again. “When I was 27, I crushed a lot,” Karen said in a handwritten statement about the record as a whole. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ ‘Sacrilege’ and the 100 Best Songs of 2013
Despite the painful lyrics, she stays stable, barely moving, before disappearing at the end. In the video for the two-minute, lo-fi song “Rapt,” which, according to Pitchfork, was directed by O’s husband Barney Clay, the vocalist floats underwater and sings in a similarly murky style about how “love’s a fucking bitch to me” while strumming guitar. Enjoying Rapt by Karen O Bookmark the page to make it easier for you to find again Press Ctrl+D to bookmark this page. Less than a year after Karen O received an Oscar nomination for her solo recording “The Moon Song” from the Her soundtrack, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman has returned with the lead single to her first solo album, Crush Songs, due out September 8th on Julian Casablancas’ Cult label.