Green Screen
Posted Tuesday 08/21/2007 1:00 AM in
DVDs
by
Ryan Dombal
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Following up last year’s relatively tame
Show Your Bones, Karen O & Co. return to the slash-and-burn style of their first album with this five-song CD/DVD combo. Featuring newly recorded live favorites, the 18-minute EP provides a quick, heady rush. Even better is the DVD, which has the band playing the EP’s set of screamers at an über-hip Brooklyn art gallery. The gig is nothing if not visually interesting: It’s filmed in alien-green night-vision, giving it an illicit air, and Karen O is decked out in a mask hung with tinsel and a bodysuit splattered with what looks like dried blood. Unsettling and brash, this brief concert film feels a lot like that infamous low-light scene in
1 Night in Paris, only much sexier.
