Initially Yeah Yeah Yeahs comfortably slotted into the swathe of NYC post-punk art groups that came following the post millennial taste for back to basics garage led by The White Stripes/Detroit scene, The Strokes and the DFA/Rapture axis. Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase began by supporting their peers, pedaling a dancefloor friendly garage rock, namechecking the likes of Jon Spencer & Girls Against Boys. With their debut album Fever To Tell however the Yeahs showed an emotional and musical depth which belied their onstage beer spilling persona, with a tribal repetitive garage rock layered with electronic squall guitar and Karen O as charismatic frontwoman either Joan Jett, Suzy Q, PJ raunchy or Siouxsie, Slits, Janis downright dangerous, 'Let's do it to each other, like a sister and a brother'. As if this wasn't enough Karen O showed a devastatingly vunerable side on third single Maps, reminiscent of Chrissie Hynde somehow, and contender for single of 2003, all together now, 'Wait, they don't love you like I love you, Wait, they don't love you like I love you, Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaps'
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