Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced “Hidden in Pieces Live at the Royal Albert Hall,” a new live album that reimagines songs from across the band’s 25-year catalog with strings, piano and double bass.
The project was recorded across two nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall as part of the band’s Hidden in Pieces tour, with arrangements by musical director, arranger and conductor Jherek Bischoff.
The band’s official Bandcamp page currently makes 13 Royal Albert Hall performances available while listing the complete digital album for October 23. The official store also lists expanded physical editions containing five additional live recordings from San Diego, New York and Chicago.
The Royal Albert Hall sequence includes “In Heaven,” “Blacktop,” “Gold Lion,” a cover of Björk’s “Hyperballad,” “Cheated Hearts,” “Isis,” “Warrior,” “Skeletons,” “Runaway,” “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” “Mars,” “Maps” and “Zero.”
The expanded physical track list adds “Y Control,” “Let Me Know,” “Hysteric,” “Despair” and “Little Shadows.”
Pitchfork reported that the live project is accompanied by a 22-minute concert film directed by Barnaby Clay.
The project presents a different side of Yeah Yeah Yeahs than the explosive guitar-and-drums attack that defined the trio’s earliest years. Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase built the Hidden in Pieces shows around vulnerability and space.
For 45Audio listeners, “Hidden in Pieces” offers a useful reminder that longevity is not only about keeping old songs in rotation. The more interesting move is finding a reason to play them differently.
No official YouTube link was included because a stable official YouTube upload tied to this release was not independently verified.
