Your Bones (coproduced by Spiegel), the follow- A Camp up to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Grammy-nominated Colonia Fever to Tell, Zinner diligently churned through

••••••••••

MYSPACE AMAZON

an array of guitar moods—from goth-surf eerie

to garage-punk edgy to acoustic-folk weary—

Wry words hidden within

sophisticated chords

and, by most accounts, rarely clicked with

Moonlighting Cardigan

Karen. But on It’s Blitz! (coproduced by Nick

Nina Persson has a soul-

Launay and TV on the Radio’s David Sitek),

fully sugar-kissed voice

those creative rifts seem fully mended.

that belies a dark knack for

The result is the alternative pop album of studding ethereal, Beatles- the decade—one that imbues the Killers’ Hot esque melodies with lyrical

Fuss and MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular with

daggers. On the second

a remarkable emotional depth and finesse. In

the shimmery melodic throb of “Soft Shock”

album by Persson’s side project—joined by her hus-

and the contemplative twinkle of “Hysteric”

band, Shudder to Think’s

(on which Karen coos, “You suddenly complete

Nathan Larson, and Atomic

Swing’s Niclas Frisk—the

A CAMP

me”), you hear New Order’s timeless swoon,

Swedish pop vet fingers

but freed of pathos. “Dragon Queen” (featuring

love as a murder weapon,

^{TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp} confessing seductively Akron/Family and stutters into a field old acquaintances (and

Malone) effortlessly strolls past that stoop in that it “can do you like a Set ’Em Wild, Set ’Em Free of chirping crickets (“Crea- bandmates) shouldn’t be the Stones’ “Waiting on a Friend” video, giving shotgun” (“Stronger Than •••••••••• tures”). “Last year was a forgotten. JESSICA SUAREZ

Jagger/Richards a funky tutorial. Jesus”). Sardonic opening ^{MYSPACE AMAZON} hard year for a long time /

Whatever the intent, It’s Blitz! feels like a

requiem for our exhausted, commodified-cool epoch and a vision of a far-less-lame future.

track “The Crowning” par- Freak-folk crew loses This year’s gonna be ours,” Ryan Bingham ties “like it’s 1699,” with member, amplifies sound they declare on the closing Roadhouse Sun

_0_94094-1 CavernHalfSprdSpin:Document 1  9/15/08  1:29 PM  Page 1

MYSPACE AMAZON

“Dull Life,” with Zinner allowed room to riff,

revelers raising “glasses Despite losing founding track, and over the course •••••••••• to murderous asses” amid member Ryan Vanderhoof of the album, they prove

plinking piano, majestic to a Buddhist center in the it. “Sun Will Shine” slides Craggy before his time,

gleefully stomps all over the “Village scene.” Hon^Ad^nda^{on t}F^he i ^bt^al:^lad“^s “C^Runa^wv^aye” ^ar^ndn“^Lo^ittu^le s” – Hmaenlt f at-odPdsawitgh thelyricSs’ pcronetinauesdto ev-ol1 ve. :HerNe ylboreankdo,wnGto blaissemd-ouet InEitfheor yr oumbuy eRyarn, Spin

horns, and a lush arrange- Midwest, this Brooklyn trio from Afrobeat jam to noise singer grows into twang

Shadow,” it’s as if Karen O is leading a funereal

pugnacious class warfare. they expand their primar- saxophone din, even Bingham’s act or you

but hopeful march to the river, with the coffin of the oft-invoked “hipster” held aloft. Pour out

FileName: 94094-1 CavernHalfSprdSpin. Size: B: 8-1B/2egxuil5 in-g5, g/8or;g T eo: u1s8 x 5-3/8;ilyLf:o1lk7y-s1ou/4ndx, im4p-5or/ t8in.gMecheandniincgawlitVhevrasriiaotinon2s: Septedmonb’te—r289,go2in0g0o8n 58,

stuff—and smartly funny, rhythms from abroad and on “Auld Lang Syne,” growling sepia-toned songs some Stella for the poor sap, but not too much. too. SHANNON ZIMMERMAN morphing electronic ticks just to emphasize that in a genre (leather-voiced

MONIKA MANO WSKA

New from Honda!

CAVERNOUS!