Hearkening back to the rawness of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ debut, FEVER TO TELL, in pure aggression if not song structure, MOSQUITO is actually a more experimental work than anything the band has put out. In fact, it’s a pretty electrifying piece of rock music in a pretty staid time for the genre. But those quotation marks offer the caveat MOSQUITO is not a bad record. After doing those comparisons, I came to the conclusion, then and now, that it was the band’s “worst” album yet. MOSQUITO was the first new Yeah Yeah Yeahs record I actively listened to in full right when it came out, and since I was already familiar with the three albums that came before it, I was doing a lot of comparing. But I think there have been some let-downs in their relatively minimal discography (minimal for one that began nearly two decades ago). Now, many hold the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to that highest of standards I just described.
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