Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ second album Show Your Bones signified a change in the the band’s style. Determined not to make a “Fever to Tell Part 2”, songs written for the then-upcoming album were scrapped and the three members decided to re-invent their sound. The result was an album with a larger sound, a bit more mystique, and one that tended to embrace the country/folk aspects of rock rather than the dirty/punk of the group’s debut.

“Honeybear” is one song on Show Your Bones which the latter part of that statement applies to. Karen O sings about her loathing for phony LA A-List parties and her plans to gate crash them against a rocking Country-Western sounding instrumental including jumpy synthesizers and sandy electric guitars. Listen to that instrumental break and try to tell me that it doesn’t sound like the music preceding the final showdown between two cowboys. That is all I can imagine, and it will be hard for you to tell me otherwise.

So yeah, I like this track. It’s a cool deep cut from a decent LP. Rock on Yeah Yeah Yeahs.