Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

Karen O adorned the cover of NME back in 2003, eyes peering out from beneath her ‘60s bowl-cut, bright red lips painted haphazardly, her body covered in a blanket of sequins and glitter – and yet most people had no idea who she was at the time. Fever To Tell swiftly catapulted her among the great frontmen and -women around, delivering on the quality of the band’s earlier EPs and easily overcoming the hype that was building as a result. And while songs like ‘Rich’ and ‘Y Control’ satisfactorily ticked the more-of-the-same box, the divine ‘Maps’ pointed towards what was to come (see below) [Paul Vickery]