Yeah Yeah Yeahs Unveil ‘Hidden’ Live LP, Film

Yeah Yeah Yeahs are opening the archive on their most intimate recent chapter with Hidden in Pieces Live at the Royal Albert Hall, a new 13-track live collection documenting the band’s celebrated 2025 Hidden in Pieces tour.

The digital album arrives today (Sept. 1) via Secretly Canadian, with physical editions and a digital deluxe version due Oct. 23. The collection captures the band in a stripped-back setting, where deep cuts and reimagined classics were reshaped around acoustic guitars, strings and piano. As the band put it, the project offers a career-spanning document of a side of Yeah Yeah Yeahs that doesn’t always get the spotlight.

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The album was “born out of a need to commune with our band and fan family in 2025, after the election,” frontwoman Karen O says. “In the past, YYYs haven’t often chosen when to be back at it and out there, it often chooses us. It, being the times. We turn to live music when we need that specific quality of depth and light to see us through the times.”

The arrangements came together quickly at Sonic Ranch in February 2025, where the band and string arranger Jherek Bischoff tackled nearly 24 songs in less than a week. “The stakes were high,” notes Karen O.

The Royal Albert Hall was only the third date of the tour, and the band’s first time playing the legendary venue. Most of the new live album was recorded there. “The hype leading up to it was overwhelming, but ladies and gentleman, we believe the hype now [that] we’ve done it,” O says. “The pipe organ moment in ‘Skeletons’ was no less than immaculate vibrations. We felt the spirits of all legends past swirling around us. [Guitarist] Nick [Zinner] remarked that he felt as though his fingers were guided on the guitar neck.”

Alongside the live album comes Hidden in Pieces, a 22-minute black-and-white visual companion directed by filmmaker/Karen O husband Barnaby Clay, whose previous credits include the Mick Rock documentary Shot! and horror film The Seeding. The film arrives today on Criterion Channel and will also receive a double-feature theatrical run at select venues in the U.K., Australia, Japan and the U.S., with some screenings to be paired with a film chosen by the band. Tickets go on sale Sept. 3.

“I wanted to create a film that not only captured the live performance but also felt close to the spirit of what the band was going for with their shows; something delicate and dream-like, like a precious memory, timeless, emotionally charged and shrouded in mystery,” Clay says.

The project also carries a tribute to filmmaker David Lynch, with whom Karen O sang on the latter’s 2011 album Crazy Clown Time. “Thanks also to David Lynch for his everything,” O says. “His passing came a month before we began this journey and the performance begins with an ode to his legacy.”

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