One-sentence reviews #7

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Mosquito
(Interscope)

!! CAUTION !!
Karen, are you okay? :(

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Lisa Germano
No Elephants
(Badman)

Like a dead-quiet Nicolas Jaar or Owen Pallett with much more baggage of history (she's been getting quieter and quieter since '92 or thereabouts), but nothing here sticks to me; it does sound pleasingly weird on headphones, though.

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Iron & Wine
Ghost on Ghost
(Nonesuch)

!! CAUTION !!
or, Dork Diaries: Selections from the Not-So-Great American Songbook; the last blow-wad major label debut record was like outtakes from his Sub Pop period, this is like stuff he'd have discarded before the tape started rolling then, but I guess there are mouths to feed, the only reasonable justification for how freaking far this guy's fallen.