The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' first album, 2003's Fever to Tell, was a lovably messy record that combined socked-out riffs, cascading sheets of noise and the caterwauling and cracked moans of singer Karen O.
It is not the keening and caterwauling I mind so much as the eerily human nature of the plangent cries, which can sound like anything from a baby crying to a couple of nightclub bouncers fighting in an alley.