COMING SOON: Yeah Yeah Yeahs: "Gold Lion (Diplo's Optimo Remix)"

PITCHFORKMEDIA.COM: It's unclear what kind of gotcha DJing Diplo's on when he debuts a remix for a track people have been dying to hear, before said track has even dropped. The new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, few of us know, has a jingle-jangle campfire vibe to it at times, so this remix is a bit misleading: kitschier, crazier. Diplo turns up the flux capacitor on Karen O's already heaving chorus and transfigures it into Q*Bert-style squawk. In doing so he makes a suitably sleepy slow-burner into the kind of contortionist freakout he's done well with Gwen and the Bloc boyz and that M.I.A. person. Gone are guitars, in are the squelch and synths. Fitting; here's Karen's chorus-time coo: "Take our hands out of our control."