Review of Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz!
November 2025
By Scott Gregory
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Review of Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
After more than a decade of digging into the albums that shaped modern music, The Sonic Collective returns with a thrilling reassessment of a record that deserves far more love. For our December 2025 episode, podcast member Scott Gregory throws down a bold pick: the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ electrifying 2009 release It’s Blitz!—an album that pushed the band beyond garage-rock swagger into sleek, pulse-driven art-pop. Some of the panel came in as newcomers, unsure of what to expect, but the verdict was overwhelmingly enthusiastic as the record revealed itself to be daring, emotional, and remarkably ahead of its time. Along the way, we unpack fascinating stories behind the album, explore why the Yeah Yeah Yeahs never quite received the same cultural coronation as peers like The White Stripes, LCD Soundsystem, or The Strokes, and argue passionately for It’s Blitz! as a modern classic that still hits hard today. If you’ve overlooked this album—or haven’t revisited it in years—this episode makes a compelling case for turning it up loud and giving it the attention it’s always deserved.
Scott Gregory and The Sonic Collective Team
Overall Scores
Recommend: 3.8
Influenced: 3.4
Overall: 3.8
Scott Gregory
Recommend: 4
Influenced: 3.5
Overall: 4
Recommend: 4
Influenced: 3.5
Overall: 4
Recommend: 4
Influenced: 3.5
Overall: 4
Recommend: 3
Influenced: 3
Overall: 3
Next Month’s Episode Preview
Our Guilty Pleasure Songs!
Selected by The Sonic Collective
Our next show will break away from our usual album review format as we create a special fun episode. Darren had the idea to air our dirty laundry and expose our guilty pleasure music we have loved over the years. Darren referenced a clip from The Sonic Highways documentary movie by Dave Grohl, of Nirvana and Foo Fighters fame. In the clip, Dave talks about his guilty pleasures and always said that he loved the song Two Become One, by The Spice Girls.
Stay tuned for the next episode where Alain, Scott, Scott, and Darren list three of their guilty pleasures in music and laugh about your own. Nobody can ever dictate or tell you what you love, and we shouldn’t judge each other too harshly for picking these artists who may have received criticisms. As the great Canadian rock journalist, podcaster and historian Alan Cross once said to us, “Respect all music, but listen to what you love!”.
Join us next month for this fun episode and find our just how depraved our guilty pleasures can be!
Darren and the Sonic Collective Crew
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