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Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O has confirmed that the band are 'on a bit of a hiatus at the moment' - and also spoken out about the poor reviews of their last album.
This year saw the release of Karen O's debut solo album Crush Songs, which despite being a collection of old demos, sparked fears among some fans that rifts among the band had led to their split.
However, speaking to NME, Karen O said that there simply on a break at the moment.
"We're on a bit of hiatus at the moment, so nothing yet," she said. "We have to wait to get the urge, get that itch. The time needs to be right and we're OK waiting for that, I think," she said, adding that when the band do get back together "it'll be like muscle memory, this unspoken thing between the three of us where it all just… locks in."
When asked if tensions within the band had inspired her solo album, she insisted that this was not the case.
"It was just me trying to express all the fucked-up shit I felt," she said. "'Show Your Bones' was a really hard record to make; a dark, tense time. The majority of the pain, craziness and suffering you feel making a record is in the studio, piecing it together. You do interviews right after coming out of that environment and end up saying things like that."
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She was also asked about the impact of the generally negative reviews of their 2013 album, Mosquito - adding that the band had tried to leave it from their system.
"It's a pretty dangerous hole to fall down, reading your own reviews, so it's not something I personally do, Karen O said. "All you can do is try to make albums you can stand by and be proud of, that are a snapshot of where you were at the time. It won't stop us, nothing like that."
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