Sometime building up to the YYYs infamous lyrical growth-spurt, the Is Is EP emerged. Written in-between their first full album, Fever To Tell ('03)and their sophomore, Show Your Bones ('06) the five-song EP echoes the earlier sound, which was harder around the edges & simply described as "dirty fun." The tracks were first revealed to the Ys truest fans & followers at a show in Brooklyn, where they played in complete darkness. Can it get any more intimate than that? The energy peak is snug in the center of the EP, with "Kiss Kiss," a song about which that is almost impossible to decipher, but is clearly meant to sound sensual, & bring a bang of a performance. The powerful wrap-up track & my personal favorite, "10 x 10" put images in mind of a tantalizing Karen O leading a march into a murky ocean, lightning bolts penetrating the earth with every count-of-eight.K.O. & the boys proved that they had grown with experience through songs like "Turn Into" and "Way Out" with the launch of Bones last year,and also added a certain personable quality to Karen, showing us that she is a real person and tender lyricist, not only the performing robot facade she took on. But now the band sends us a message with Is Is that though they're all grown up, they are still the same colorful, young, and daring band we knew years back.
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"Down Boy" Music Video (from the Webster Hall performance)
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