Where the Wild Things Are: Karen O & The Kids
8th Nov 2009
8/10
SINGING children. It’s a dangerous one; for every Another Brick in the Wall, there’s a There’s No-one Quite Like Grandma. At times, especially on the first listen, the children do threaten to derail this album. But come back and you quickly become accustomed to it.
The trick the album pulls is to make sure there’s enough goodness to keep you coming back.Since Yeah Yeah Yeahs released Maps, the previously sex-shrieking Karen O has shown an increasingly softer side. And so it is that this album is a very cuddly, calm experience. Sometimes. There is definitely variety: Capsize has the best Pixies guitar since the Pixies; Worried Shoes is hauntingly beautiful enough to get away with the Linkin Park-esque ‘every step I take is another mistake.’
With more listenings, the album starts to feel pleasantly familiar. While this can work against it, especially in later tracks, it’s difficult to criticise a film soundtrack for being background music.
Especially when it’s this wonderfully pretty.
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